--On Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:47 AM +0200 Marco Colombo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Server-side global content-based filtering is silly, unless of course it's your (private) server. Users are expected to do their own filtering, otherwise they're exposed anyway. Server-side filtering (on public servers) is just false sense of security.
I strongly disagree. Users just want spam to go away. They do not want to configure filters. They're not very good at it either: they usually just add the sender address to a blacklist, and that does almost nothing for them. It's not a security issue. It's annoyance reduction. If this list could possibly restrict posting to subscribers that would go a long way. That is pretty routine for lists. At least I haven't been unsubscribed yet because of our mail system rejecting spam. Joseph Brennan --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
