-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 15:44, Glenn Maynard wrote: > The amount of spam actually distributed via this list is tiny.
I subscribe to about two dozen mailing lists and recieve about 400 messages a day via those lists. I don't know which lists you follow, but the two lftp lists are the *only* lists from which I get any spam at all, let alone on a daily or even hourly basis. There is often more spam here than there is normal traffic. I contend that the amount of spam is *not* tiny, based on the fact that there is more spam here than from all of my other lists put together. Please forgive me for sounding angry. Even though I choose not to use SpamAssassin or similar products, my email filters suit their purposes and I generally have no problem deleting my 10-or-so spams every morning. I'm simply pointing out that the spam here is higher than usual, and other lists obviously have done something to prevent the problem. I'm kindly asking that the maintainer of this list do the same. > Restricting posters is unfeasible (there are legitimate reasons to post to > lists you're not on). Why? If I post a message to this list, how can I even expect to get a response if I'm not a member? Restricting posting would solve this problem with only a small burden to one-time posters. Maybe more of those one-time posters would even become involved in the community. Oh well... I'll stop complaining simply because I've spent more time writing this email than I would manually deleting all the spam I get in a year. Thanks for listening to my ramble. - -- Peter Davis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9H49kNSZCJx7tYycRAtmEAKDBvSy+LsDFNjVwn04kT+hxIqmmIwCfRLa9 onPHqdso9SrcEkP4XJVBRCs= =43iZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
