On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:01:20PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It gets posts from non-members, that's why. > > .... or at least from members who do not always send mail from their > subscription address. > > > Debian[0] won't accept any solution that involves censoring users. > > That means you have to 0 false-hits. That rules out all the automatic > > tools people use. The only way I can think of to do this is allow > > subscribers and past posters through automatically, and flag the rest > > to be manually moderated. But this requires a group of volunteers to > > the moderation, and nothing will happen until there is such a group. > > > > [0] IANADD, so I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds, but I think this > > is the option of debian in general. > > Opinions among developers are somewhat divided, but the general > consensus is that anything potentially legitimate should get through; > any arguments tend to be about where, if anywhere, to draw the line. > If that means letting the occasional piece of spam through, so be it.
Yeah, that's basically what meant. > > Incidentally, I have seen at least as much griping about spam on this > list as actual spam; if you're annoyed with spam, either unsubscribe, > set up a personal filter (such as spamassassin), or complain to the > listmasters, rather than complaining to members who can't do anything > about it. And if they don't like the threads about spam I'm sure they can configure the filters to block those too :) Personally, I've thought about volunteering to do moderation, but there's three problems: 1) I don't know enough about mailing list software to set it up 2) We'd need more than one person, because of downtime (eg sleep), languages I don't speak, and sheer number of posts 3) IANADD. I may not need to be a "full" developer, but I'd atleast need a signed GPG key If the first two were taken care of then the third probably wouldn't be too hard. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
