Hello!
Not possible on that suggestion. Spammers multiply faster then rabbits. As
to your comment about having to be a member of a list to be able to send to
it, you are quite correct. An investigation is in order to sort out why and
prevent it from happening. Especially since there is a theme, all of them
are about made up companies and their made up stocks.

I have a better suggestion, lets all permanently switch to using plain text
on our mail programs, and then have the list service reject everything sent
in HTML format. (I don't know if you have noticed Scott, but all of those
annoying items were sent that way and contained an embedded image. Which was
the stupid message. The moronic text was supposed to annoy the perennially
broken filtering methods that some programs use. Then see my next line why.)


Also we could have the service configured to reject attachments. Anyone who
is a member who needs to send one, such as a patch, would need to send a
reminder to one of the regular developers first, and the list Owner.

Who by rights should be managing the list properly to prevent that spamming
problem from happening.

--
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owfs-developers-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Owfs-developers] What's with all the spam in the OWFS list
lately?
> 
> What's with all the spam the list has been getting lately?  I thought
> you had to be a member of the list in order to send to it?   If that's
> the case can we find the email address that's being used and cut it
> off?  Not that my inbox isn't already filled with spam, but I hate
> seeing an OWFS tagged message come through and then it really ends up
> being spam.
> 
> I think a better ling-term option would be to move the email list to a
> forum instead.  That way it's cleaner, faster, and more direct.  I
> realize you can browse them on the sourceforge site in a threaded
> manner, but robust  forums are really nice for developer )and user)
> communication IME.  I think the lack of good "end-user" tools is one of
> my biggest beefs with sourceforge in general, but that's another story....
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> -Scott


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