On 6/23/06, Michael Rozdoba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Justin Patrin wrote:
> On 6/20/06, Jeffrey Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Please stop spaming me. I wouldn't buy water from a spammer, and I
>> live in the desert
>
> The OE list isn't spamming you. The spammer is spamming the OE list.
The OE related list/s is/are the only damned list/s I subscribe to out
of around 30 which have /ever/ had a serious spam problem. AFAICS the
list admins should be ensuring this crap gets filtered out before the
mails get forwarded, given the refusal to close the list (which would,
along with care over subscriptions, almost eliminate the problem).
One assumes this isn't a result of a similar line of reasoning to that
which leads to reply-to's going to the individual posters, rather than
the list, though I can't help but wonder what it says about the list
administration.
IMHO it's much better to let users deal with spam on their own so that
the list admins don't have to spend their time administering yet
another spam system and making sure that it is kept up to date. Spam
systems, to work well, need to be kept up to date and for false
positives and negatives to be dealt with. The end-mail systems are
better for this since:
1) the end-systems tend to have far more users who can mark messages
2) the end users know what they want marked as spam or not
I have gotten very very few spams in my inbox in a long time, whether
they come over a list or not. The OE devs use their time to develop
OE. Dealing with another spam system is an extra hassle that is really
not needed, especially when you can just mark a message as spam and
not have a problem any more.
--
Justin Patrin
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