On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:38:05PM +0800, Alexey Zilber wrote: > I think most of us are getting soft being gmail users. I haven't seen > this amount of spam in my inbox today, probably in years.
Same here and shit happens from time to time. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and find 50 spam in my box for no apparent reason. And so what ? Just hit "t" on each of them, ";s" and save them to the spam box. That takes about 12-15 seconds while my coffee heats up. Not the end of the world. > Personally, I > would go with an automated sub/unsub list. People who need help will > usually take the effort to subscribe to a list, so I'm not sure what the > advantage is of having an open list. Probably because you've never got any of your posts rejected by a list you used to reply to when someone CCed you. > It's like having an open smtp relay. It's a bit exagerated. > I think at the very least implementing DNSBL might help (at least for the > spam received today) if you decide not to go the subscription route... We already *do* have some DNSBL, and one of them had to be removed because the bastards^Wnice guys who maintain them wanted to show the world their strong muscles and to blacklist gmail, so valid subscribers started to get bothered and to send me the messages they wanted me to relay. Not the most efficient way to make people participate to a mailing list if you want my opinion... The problem in this world is not people trying to annoy others, it's people trying to help those who don't seek help. In the sake of making the world better, they constrain people to follow their new rules without having any clue what these people need in the first place. Willy
