I have no advice on what to do, but I'm a regular reader of the ML and I receive almost no spam from the ML because it is filtered in a very efficient way by the Gmail spam filter (I use Gmail).
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Lukas Tribus <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that people have strong opinions about this which is why previous > discussions have been a bit "tense", but I think we will have to discuss > this again sooner or later. > > I got 16 SPAM mails through the ML in the last 12 hours (and 3 valid post), > and the trend in the last weeks shows that this is getting worse. > > > Now, having a some antispam solution in front of the ML requires > maintenance > and will inevitably lead to false positives, thats probably not what we > want > or have the resources to do. > > Restricting the list to subscribed user (subonlypost) is not a good thing > either, however if the alternative is that important topics (from both > subscribed and not subscribed users) are buried in tens of SPAM threads > every day, I think its a small price to pay. >
