Hello,
The bug-gdb mailing list is drenched in spam. About 90% of the
messages in the 2002-December and 2002-November archives are spam.
I would like to volunteer to administer the bug-gdb mailing list
and filter the spam.
This is a Mailman list. I'm one of the administrators of
[EMAIL PROTECTED], another Mailman list. We found that
it was easy and effective to anti-spam our list by:
. holding all posts from non-subscribers for approval
. distributing all posts from subscribers
. adding about three dozen well-known non-subscribers to a whitelist
(if we see someone regularly respond to posts which are sent to
kbuild-devel + other places, and they are not a subscriber,
we just whitelist them).
The downside is that some legitimate posts are held for approval
for many hours / 1-2 days. You can mitigate this by having several
administrators with approval authority. Right now, I suspect that many
gdb maintainers do not even bother reading bug-gdb at all because of
the high spam content.
Affiliations: I am a gdb contributer and have a current FSF assignment on
file for gdb and other projects. I am a former employee of Red Hat.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
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