Hi, I've been a little busy in the last couple of weeks, and haven't had time to reply to this particular set of emails as it's more complicated than most requests.
I will usually answer the easier requests first to get them out of the way. On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:07:52PM +0200, MarC wrote: > Hello, > > Can anybody help me? > > In order to suggest a "better" (IMO) configuration for the mailing lists > to avoid spam, I have sent several mails during my life to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to this subject and I never got any > answer. You have received some answers. At this point [EMAIL PROTECTED] just points to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > However, some weeks ago, I was able to contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Pascal Hakim answered me (thank you!). > See below the content of such mail... > > Then, I reported to the users of the debian-catalan-user list his answer > and I did a poll to know their opinion about it which can be checked at > the archives of the list > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-catalan/2005/debian-user-catalan-200505/threads.html). > But since I reported back the results (16-5-2005) nobody has answered me > again... There are a few issues at play here. Firstly, I do not believe that this would actually help a huge amount. There are currently a few different other places where spammers can get those addresses. For example, most lists are currently replicated to NNTP services, where addresses are not obfuscated. I'm also convinced that there are spammer feeder bots subscribed to the lists. While I have no conclusive proof of this, both Anand and myself have seen strange behaviour that can probably only be explained by that. There's basically nothing that can be done about either of those. Secondly, there's a massive technical problem. A lot of things posted on lists are of a technical nature, and include at signs. Whether this is because they're stack traces, arch archive names, or perl arrays doesn't matter a great deal, you don't want those to be damaged. Finally, I'm not really willing to have this enabled for just one list. It's liable to cause even more problems in terms of administration. > >Finally we have realised that some spammers write directly to the list > >without being stopped by any moderator. I think we should also improve > >this. Do you think it's possible? See the "english posts" of > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-catalan/2005/debian-user-catalan-200505/threads.html > > > > I'm also not willing to add moderators to lists. Having moderators causes more problems than not having any. Cheers, Pasc (with his listmaster hat on) -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
