On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote:
> 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? We don't want a closed list. We've discussed this in the past on openfabrics general and openib general. _______________________________________________ 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
