On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 at 10:56:32AM -0400, Dan Noe wrote: > On 3/27/2008 10:46, Talpey, Thomas wrote: >> I'm getting more than a little sick of the spam that's coming in through >> the old mail alias on openib.org. It has increased greatly in the past >> week. >> Can we either tighten up the protections there, or cut it off? In fact, >> does >> it make sense to move the entire list to vger, as is the norm with the >> other >> mainline kernel projects? > > This list accounts for about 10% of the total spam I receive (which is a > lot) and there has been a general uptick in spam since the beginning of the > week. I think there is a new Windows virus or botnet in the wild since > most of it is coming from residential ISPs. > > Spamprobe catches it, but I still need to browse that daily to make sure > there are no false positives. I would vote for tightening the protections > here.
Hi, the problem is that anybody can write to the list. this has advantages, but allows spam to come. so just close access to registered people? cheers, P -- Pawel Dziekonski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wroclaw Centre for Networking & Supercomputing, HPC Department Politechnika Wr., pl. Grunwaldzki 9, bud. D2/101, 50-377 Wroclaw, POLAND phone: +48 71 3202043, fax: +48 71 3225797, http://www.wcss.wroc.pl _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
