You say that foreign language posts are off topic and shouldn't be made at all, while someone else said they can't be helped due to XFree86's international nature, but should in fact be welcomed...go figure.
I guess the foreign posts should be ignored by the english sector, and let the foreign guys worry about it.
I recently got a warning from the post master for relaying a volunteer request by X.org, and it definitely let me know I was in the wrong...perhaps the postmaster could contact other spammers and give them the same one-two that I got. IMHO, this would put a stop to the advertisements.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hi Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:12:14 -0800
> I speak spanish and that seems to say something about your mother, big cow
>
> I hope I'm mistaken because that sounds rather rude.
>
> By the way, this is the 3rd foreign message I've received in the last week.
> I made a post about an automatic translation filter that checks the country
> domain; I'd really like to see it implemented. I've heard of babelfish.
What would be the point? Almost all of the foreign language messages to this list are SPAM. In fact, this one would conflict with your recent request to limit profanity. The foreign language messages are OFF-TOPIC and don't belong at all.
It would be alot of work to install such a filter, even if one did exist, just for one or two messages a year. When those very rare messages do occur, there are enough people on the list who speak other languages that can either respond or provide a translation if needed. If you see a non- English message on this list, you can safely assume it is SPAM, unless proven otherwise.
BTW, this message does reference your mother, but according to it, the big cow is your wife (she's also a whore among other things). I won't go into what it tells you to do to yourself.
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> >From: luca bettati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: Re: hi
> >Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:39:42 +0100
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> >hai rotto il cazzo: t�, tua madre e quella gran vacca, zoccola, puttana e
> >troia di tua moglie!
> >vatti a farti fottere figlio di PUTTANA
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