On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:10:08PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > I'd bet that *most* of the spam that you receive for posting to a > list is get through the news gate, /not/ through our very own > webarchive.
I don't think so. This used to be the case in the 90s, but these days web crawlers seem to be preferred. On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:27:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Conversely, don't we cave in to [the spammers] by disabling > features? That's why I keep suggesting the @ -> @ thing - it's a first step and significantly reduces the amount of spam, without any bad side-effects. Another thing which I've seen with some online archives is a "mail this person" button. The CGI behind it does a HTTP redirect to a "mailto:" link, I think - works very well! The next step after that would be to /kindly/ ask other WWW archives of Debian lists to do something similar. Many won't react, but every little helps. > It definitely seems wiser in the long run to fight spam by directly > fighting spammers, spamhausen etc, and not by eliminating everything > that may be abused... IMHO we should fight spam on every available front - and the changes I'm suggesting don't impair the usefulness of the online archive. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯