Why isn't all this nonsense bring treated as spam? On 5 Jul 2010, at 01:23, Don Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> Man what a load of crap on this list this morning! > > aa. I never get spam in my debian folder because I run two spam filters of > my own. Come on, we have to give some of the job to the user as well as the > server. > > bb. A week ago I asked about a real problem that I'm having and got nothing > on two lists and the forum. > > How about putting some effort into stuff that helps users truck on rather > than a flame about stupid spam?! > > Cheers Don > > On 5/07/2010 12:13 p.m., Jim Popovitch wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 20:08, Russ Allbery<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Jim Popovitch<[email protected]> writes: >>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 19:31, Stephen Gran<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> No, Russ implied that reality occasionally intrudes on fantasies of >>>>> spam-free inboxes. >>> >>>> Russ stated: >>> >>>> It's unlikely to get substantially better than it is (I believe >>>> we're already rejecting something like 95% of the incoming mail), so >>>> if it's still not good enough for you, you should probably consider >>>> unsubscribing. >>> >>>> I beleive that 99% is achieveable, and I believe his final >>>> "unsubscribe" sentence is akin to walking away from the problem. >>> >>> Rejecting 99% of the incoming mail would be very bad if 5% of the incoming >>> mail were legitimate. I meant exactly what I said: Debian rejects >>> something like 95% of the incoming mail to the mailing lists according to >>> the latest message from the listmasters. If I'd meant that we reject 95% >>> of the *spam*, I would have said that. >> >> Well, there are two ways to read what you originally wrote, and since >> the thread discussion was on rejecting spam I took your 95% statement >> to mean d.o was blocking 95% of spam. I beleive d.o can (and should) >> attempt to block 100% of spam. >> >> You did say the part about "unsubscribe". >> >> -Jim P. >> >> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4998546223716940...@unknownmsgid
