I agree as well. Regards, Michael
On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:33 AM, david rene comba lareu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >
