I'm willing to take my chances, I don't know of any spammers that would take the time to join a mailing list in order to spam, blocking outside senders has completely stopped spam on another list that I am on, I'm pretty sure it'd be helpful here too.
ryan > -----Original Message----- > From: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: March 19, 2002 11:22 AM > To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > Guys, how do we control who is subscribed? Like I am > subscriber I can start putting spam! Anyone can subscribe to > our list, so disallowing from external sources will not work, > as the spammer can become member and spam. They may flood the > list before admin can take them out from the list. But yes! > Spam is becoming a much bigger issue here and we need to do > something for this. One bet is to disallow all the mails that > are not in normal character set, but that will limit even the > normal subscribers from japan/russia and other countries that > have different character set. There gotta be a way to clear > up this mess. > > Vishal Jain > ILX Systems > NY > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniels, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:59 PM > To: 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Speed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:51 PM > To: 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > It seems to be a trend lately, I'm on a few lists that get > spammed with this bullshit. I think the best bet would be to > disallow mail from people who aren't subscribed to the list. > > ryan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman > > Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM > > To: cvsInfo > > Subject: Re: english text only? > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote: > > > i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself why > i receive > > > mails with strange characters in it. i guess it is japanese > > or stuff > > > like that. > > > > It's spam. The rest of us don't want it either! > > > > > nevertheless, how can i get rid of it? > > > > I wish I knew... > > > > -- > > > > | | /\ > > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | | / > > "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! > > I'll ask about Exchange Server next. > > - Anonymous > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Info-cvs mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
