How bout finding another listserver that supports spam filtering? > -----Original Message----- > From: Vishal Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:22 AM > To: 'Daniels, David'; 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > Guys, how do we control who is subscribed? Like I am > subscriber I can start > putting spam! Anyone can subscribe to our list, so > disallowing from external > sources will not work, as the spammer can become member and > spam. They may > flood the list before admin can take them out from the list. > But yes! Spam > is becoming a much bigger issue here and we need to do > something for this. > One bet is to disallow all the mails that are not in normal > character set, > but that will limit even the normal subscribers from > japan/russia and other > countries that have different character set. There gotta be a > way to clear > up this mess. > > Vishal Jain > ILX Systems > NY > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniels, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:59 PM > To: 'Ryan Speed'; 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > Agreed. We can't seem to get the list managers to take action, though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Speed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:51 PM > To: 'cvsInfo' > Subject: RE: english text only? > > > It seems to be a trend lately, I'm on a few lists that get > spammed with > this bullshit. I think the best bet would be to disallow mail from > people who aren't subscribed to the list. > > ryan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Behalf Of Eric Siegerman > > Sent: March 19, 2002 10:38 AM > > To: cvsInfo > > Subject: Re: english text only? > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Leif Hanack wrote: > > > i'm new to this mailing-list and i'm wondering myself why > i receive > > > mails with strange characters in it. i guess it is japanese > > or stuff > > > like that. > > > > It's spam. The rest of us don't want it either! > > > > > nevertheless, how can i get rid of it? > > > > I wish I knew... > > > > -- > > > > | | /\ > > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | | / > > "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! > > I'll ask about Exchange Server next. > > - Anonymous > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Info-cvs mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs >
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