Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-20 Thread Santiago Vila
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Santiago My points is that posting to a mailing list should be a Santiago privilege, not a right. I strongly disagree. We are vendors who provide an OS. I know we do not treat users as customers, but being a debian user is not a privilege. Of course not,

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it Sven after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and Sven expensive modem connection. Quit. So th solution is to apply spam filtering

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven To avoid spam in debian lists: Sven - Being able to post is a privilege, not a right. The natural way of Sven obtaining this privilege, for so called open lists, is by Sven subscribing Sven to them and using the same address in

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The answer is not to treat legitimate users like dirt, and force them to use the subscribe address (my subscribe address is never the address I post from). No, you could subscribe the address you post from to the white list. Smartlist then

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven What about the filtering mails crossposted to lots of list, these Sven are the one that escape my own spamassassin setup mostly, and i receive Sven 12+ copies of them. Can spamassassin, or another spam killer do such a Sven test ?

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Santiago Unless you change ISP several times a week, this would not be a Santiago problem for you, Manoj. I change ISP's several times a month, and, indeed, sometimes use more than 2 a week. Well, but most people don't do that. Can you

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago Well, but most people don't do that. Where is the survey? Santiago My points is that posting to a mailing list should be a Santiago privilege, not a right. I strongly disagree. We are vndors who provide an OS. I

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it Sven after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and Sven expensive modem connection. Quit. So th solution is to apply spam filtering

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven To avoid spam in debian lists: Sven - Being able to post is a privilege, not a right. The natural way of Sven obtaining this privilege, for so called open lists, is by Sven subscribing Sven to them and using the same address in

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:24:09AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it Sven after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and Sven expensive modem

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The answer is not to treat legitimate users like dirt, and force them to use the subscribe address (my subscribe address is never the address I post from). No, you could subscribe the address you post from to the white list. Smartlist then

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven What about the filtering mails crossposted to lots of list, these Sven are the one that escape my own spamassassin setup mostly, and i receive Sven 12+ copies of them. Can spamassassin, or another spam killer do such a Sven test ?

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: The answer is not to treat legitimate users like dirt, and force them to use the subscribe address (my subscribe address is never the address I post from). Santiago No, you could

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Santiago Unless you change ISP several times a week, this would not be a Santiago problem for you, Manoj. I change ISP's several times a month, and, indeed, sometimes use more than 2 a week. Well, but most people don't do that. Can you

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Santiago Well, but most people don't do that. Where is the survey? Santiago My points is that posting to a mailing list should be a Santiago privilege, not a right. I strongly disagree. We are vndors who provide an OS. I

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:23:52PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:50:13AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. It does not work. What about those italian spams we

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:48:26AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:39:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:50:13AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:23:52PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. It does not work. What about those italian spams we

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:48:26AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: A. This has no business being a general resolution, and would be an abuse of that process, IMHO[1]. [...] [1] If it's not, that's a bug in the constitution. Any quibblers who would like to play constitutional lawyer, please

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people who still have

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. It does not work. What about those italian spams we received yesterday and today? If the debian server only

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For that there are many tools deleting spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by working on the spamassassin config the amount of garbage delivered can be

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:19, Jérôme Marant wrote: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people who still have a problem should investigate http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ for an

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:04:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: A. This has no business being a general resolution, and would be an abuse of that process, IMHO[1]. [...] [1] If it's not, that's a bug in the constitution. Any quibblers who would like to play constitutional lawyer, please

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable collateral damage in the war on spam. Spam filtering works; and people who still have a

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem connection. Thats why I find Dan Bernsteins proposal[1] the most brilliant

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For that there are many tools deleting spam

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users, treating them as acceptable collateral damage in the war

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I am against this proposal as well. W should not be making things harder for legitimate users,

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. It does not work. What about those italian spams we received yesterday and today? If the debian server only

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, manoj, the only problem is that when you filter spam, you do it after having paid for the download of the spam over a possibly slow and expensive modem connection. Most of the times you use pop3 then. For

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:00, Jérôme Marant wrote: now that all of the debian-* lists are being run through spamassassin your daily dose of canned meat should drop nicely. It does not work. What about those italian spams we received

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by working on the spamassassin config the amount of garbage delivered can be

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:18, Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven mentioned that people with a poor network connection who have to download all the spam anyway. That is the real issue. agreed. However I believe that by

General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: To avoid spammers harvesting addresses from the list archives: - The public web archives

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: The rest of your email is ignorable, because the above is blatantly wrong. You can't force anyone to do anything, period. If you

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I also object to this in its entirety. Now, if you want to be helpful, introduce tarpitting into

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Jérôme Marant
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. How about giving arguments? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Enough comments. I withdraw my proposal (better said: I won't make it official). Thanks everybody. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: [subscribers automatically whitelisted] No other mail will reach the lists until it's approved by a moderator If a poster was approved once, they get added to the white list too. Auto Approval of mails with valid References/In-Reply-To could also

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: - The public web archives of the different debian mailing lists, past, present and future, will be processed so that it becomes impossible for an ordinary user not having special privileges to mail someone who posted something to

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
A. This has no business being a general resolution, and would be an abuse of that process, IMHO[1]. B. If by some fluke all or any substantial number of these proposals came to pass, whether by GR ot any other means, I would no longer find Debian to be the type of project which I

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:06:00AM -0700, David N. Welton wrote: Those of us without root, as far as I can see, have only the route of democracy in the form of our system of resolutions, the constitution, and all that other nonsense, to get things done that we can't directly do ourselves.

General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: To avoid spammers harvesting addresses from the list archives: - The public web archives

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: The rest of your email is ignorable, because

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux |Yeah, that's what Jesus would do. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: The rest of your email is ignorable, because the above is blatantly wrong. You can't force anyone to do anything, period. If you want

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread David N. Welton
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want something done, do it yourself. Maybe telling him off was the right thing to do, but not in this way, unless you propose to give him root to let him do things himself. Those of us without root, as far as I can see, have only the route of

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
sorry for replying to the wrong list Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. === = Those who have in Debian the power to do so, will implement the following: To avoid spammers harvesting addresses from the

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. AOLme too/AOL yours,

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Jim Penny
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I also object to this in its entirety. Now, if you want to be helpful, introduce tarpitting into

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Jérôme Marant
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. How about giving arguments? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Santiago, On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. - The public web archives of the different debian mailing lists, past, present and future, will be processed so that it becomes impossible for an ordinary user not

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Greg Norris
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:44:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. Ditto.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Enough comments. I withdraw my proposal (better said: I won't make it official). Thanks everybody.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:59, Santiago Vila wrote: - The Debian source package format will be modified so that .dsc and .changes files do not need to have the complete email of the maintainer, only his name and gpg signature. That is completely insane.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Branden! You wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I object to this proposal in its entirety. Me too. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: [subscribers automatically whitelisted] No other mail will reach the lists until it's approved by a moderator If a poster was approved once, they get added to the white list too. Auto Approval of mails with valid References/In-Reply-To could also work.

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: - The public web archives of the different debian mailing lists, past, present and future, will be processed so that it becomes impossible for an ordinary user not having special privileges to mail someone who posted something to

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Pete Ryland
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. I'd just like to say I agree with the proposal. Pete

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
A. This has no business being a general resolution, and would be an abuse of that process, IMHO[1]. B. If by some fluke all or any substantial number of these proposals came to pass, whether by GR ot any other means, I would no longer find Debian to be the type of project which I

Re: General Resolution draft against spam.

2002-10-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:06:00AM -0700, David N. Welton wrote: Those of us without root, as far as I can see, have only the route of democracy in the form of our system of resolutions, the constitution, and all that other nonsense, to get things done that we can't directly do ourselves.