On 09/05/2014 08:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Sorry, this is a stupid suggestion.
1) The spam still makes it onto the list archives - See:
http://marc.info/?l=haproxy&r=1&b=201409&w=2
2) It dilutes the mailing list content by creating a massive drop in
signal to noise (24+ spam messages in the past day?!?)
3) It causes the reputation as a mail sender of the haproxy mailing
lists to be greatly reduced - meaning eventually hosts will reject mail
from the list - legit or not.
4) This is a problem that has been 'solved' on other mailing lists for
at least a decade.
5) It gives the impression to people wanting to use haproxy that the
admin team don't know what they're doing. I've gotten more spam from
this single list in the last 24 hours than I have from the total of ALL
my other mailing lists in the past few months.
If you aren't going to do proper spam filtering, AT LEAST do moderation
of non-member posts. This single action will just about cure the spam
problem.
Its starting to become a joke.
I agree w/ every point here. I do run my own spam filter (spamassassin)
and it works very well. But it mostly trusts email that has a valid
DKIM signature. Since the spam from list does have valid DKIM sigs it
makes it through my filter easily.
To fix this I'd have to make special spam rules just for this list to
ignore DKIM signatures. That of course defeats the purpose of them in
the first place.
Please either filter the spam or require some kind of registration
before posting to the list.
Thank you,
Colin Ingarfield
