On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > Now please let me remind me something important : this list is provided > for free to make it easier for developers and users to exchange together. > It's managed on spare time, it's fast and free to subscribe just like it's > fast and free to unsubscribe. Some users do indeed subscribe, participate > to a thread then unsubscribe. There have been about 3 times more > subscriptions than current subscribers, many of which coming back from > time to time. So for people for whom this amount of spam is a terrible > experience, there are a lot of options. However when you're on the service > side of things, options to fight spam *always* come from extra burden > dealing > with false positives. So the situation is clearly far from being perfect, > but > it used to be reasonably well balanced for 7 years now. Only very recently > we started to get subscribed to several lists and probably the address has > better circulated to spammers resulting in an increase in the amount of > spam. > But I certainly won't spend as much time dealing with anti-spam problems as > I already spent in this sterile thread. > > Willy > > > Willy,
Please don't take our issues with the spam personally. Everyone appreciates the list and the help it's provided, so keep in mind people are just voicing their opinions (and most of us have strong opinions) regarding spam. Going over the previous threads, imho if you don't have Greylisting, maybe that's the way to go? While my opinion still stands that the only real way to combat this spam is to make it a 'subscribe to post' list; if you're using Greylisting, why not build it so that unsubscribed users have a weighted value, so users who post a lot are automatically whitelisted (before passing their email through spamassasin or other such spam scanner). Thanks Willy! -Alex
