Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henning Makholm: I find these recurring threads slightly surreal. I think that lists.d.o does a excellent job of filtering spam; my own (anecdotal, non-scientific) experience is that I spend more time reading discussions about how to spamfilter l.d.o better than I spend ignoring spam on

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Wouter: El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: [...] spam, as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ Not exactly. Spam, as

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:07:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Wouter: El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: [...] spam, as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular brand

RE: Spam on the List

2005-09-06 Thread Allyn, MarkX A
I have a question about the general lists; not the bug tracker. What would happen if we can change the policy of the lists (debian-boot, debian-devel, and so forth) so that they will not accept email except from those people who have already subscribed and have confirmed? I belong to some email

Re: Spam on the List

2005-09-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 9/6/05, Allyn, MarkX A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question about the general lists; not the bug tracker. What would happen if we can change the policy of the lists (debian-boot, debian-devel, and so forth) so that they will not accept email except from those people who have

Re: Spam on the List

2005-09-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* MarkX A. Allyn: What would happen if we can change the policy of the lists (debian-boot, debian-devel, and so forth) so that they will not accept email except from those people who have already subscribed and have confirmed? For some general lists which are Cc:ed regularly (debian-devel,

Re: Spam on the List

2005-09-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[MarkX A Allyn] What would happen if we can change the policy of the lists (debian-boot, debian-devel, and so forth) so that they will not accept email except from those people who have already subscribed and have confirmed? Is this a retorical question? A lot of spam and non-spam messages

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Allyn, MarkX A [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. I find these recurring threads slightly surreal. I think that lists.d.o does a

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-09-01 20:20:39, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: [Allyn, MarkX A] I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. The debian lists are not doing a great job in

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. That should be spam - SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michelle Konzack] Are you happy ? Sure, I am happy. :) If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. I will? I do not know if gmane uses the debian spamfilters, but it seem to do quite a good job filtering out spam. :) I

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: That should be spam - SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case spam would also infringe the mark). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett writes: That should be spam - SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case spam would also infringe the mark). No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form it's a clear

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form it's a clear reference to the food product, and as such is potentially infringing under various circumstances. I'm quite certain that if you brought out a brand of canned pork under the label spam that US

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Matt, Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. That should be spam - SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation.

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:42:47PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi Matt, Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM.

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Wouter: El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: [...] spam, as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ Not exactly. Spam, as unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular Monty Python's Flying

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:45:07 +0200, Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to consider reading the lists using NNTP to gmane.org. I read several of the lists that way, and gmane filter out the spam for me. :) And it needs money

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-04 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 18:56 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: And it needs money for a new dual Opteron mail server: URL: http://gmane.org/donate.php Please refrain from raising funds for other projects on Debian mailing lists. Donations solicited here should go to Debian, not somewhere else. I

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that being too restrictive on spam also means getting more false positives. Therefore one must find out how much more restrictive one can be without getting too restrictive. :D -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-02 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Pascal Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-02 10:20]: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: Hello: I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. Tell me about it. I am curious; is the email list

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Allyn, MarkX A] I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. The debian lists are not doing a great job in blocking spam. You might want to consider reading the lists using

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Romain Francoise
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to consider reading the lists using NNTP to gmane.org. I read several of the lists that way, and gmane filter out the spam for me. :) And it needs money for a new dual Opteron mail server: URL: http://gmane.org/donate.php --

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-01 20:42]: [Allyn, MarkX A] I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive for me in my work environment. The debian lists are not doing a great job

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package name, version, etc) is not followed; the bug will not be emailed out to the lists? That's

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl script just like sa-learn or something like this? So it would

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Josh Metzler
On Thursday 01 September 2005 06:42 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package name, version, etc) is not

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl script