I am CC:ing this to Mail-Archive's discussion list because it is of general interest.
>I clicked on a dozen lists on this page: >http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html > >For some reason, every one of them had only one or two messages archived and >all those messages were SPAM :-/ > >Perhaps there is a way that you might sick Bogofilter or something on those >and delete those lists from the archive. Just a thought and I don't know how >to do it. Mail-Archive receives a lot of spam (along with lots of legitmate mail). Spam messages typically have screwy headers and thus often get archived as their own list. In general, I have the list of lists ignore anything that is colder than a few months, which somewhat keeps things under control. So the dozen archived spam messages you saw are still kind of fresh, but will eventually for all practical purposes go away on their own. Running a serious spam filter on incoming mail is too computationally expensive (there is a lot of mail!) but it is an otherwise good suggestion. Unfortunately I know from my own inbox that a lot of spam these days is specifically designed to get around spam filters. Anyway, while spammers are still the #1 risk for Mail-Archive's longterm survival, things are not as bad as they might seem at first glance. Jeff PS. An unfortunate side effect of archiving spam is that sometimes people get confused. They receive spam, do a web search, find out that Mail-Archive received the same spam. The conclude that Mail-Archive is somehow the source rather than a fellow victim and complain loudly. Maybe I need to make another FAQ entry. _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
