I totally agree with this. Please, set up some anti-spam measure to the list.
2014-09-05 10:15 GMT-03:00 Colin Ingarfield <[email protected]>: > 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 >
