I think people have to realise (and I didn't really want to enter this thread but what the hell), that connecting to the Internet and mailing lists means you will get some spam, deal with it, if you want to be on SLUG live with the fact that unless you can do better (and step up) the admins are doing what they can,
Every mailing list I've ever been on has these debates and they are mostly pointless and bandwidth wasting .. The ILUG (Irish LUG) has this at least once a year I'd say, and the policy is simple , if a list is to help new users, they should easily be able to post to it .. moderation is a bloody hassle, and unless someone is willing to stop complaining and volunteer their time to moderate the postings at a decent rate, some spam will get through, and thank God your not me, I get on average 100 Spams a day, 30-40 to /dev/null, 30-40 to my spam folder, and 10-20 to my INBOX, my current spam folder is over 5000 messages (anyone wanna train their bayes filter..) and that is since July (and I delete a few hundred when I'm bored at work).. Dave. On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Richard Ames wrote: > > The problem with this rational is that you did recieve them and pay for > the bandwidth. > > They should be filtered before the listserver. > > Or better yet --- member only. > > Richard. > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: > > > Ok I just had a look in my spam folder. > > Implement spamassassin, then you may limit the amount of > > spam arriving in your mailbox :) > > > > > I received two or three just yesterday via SLUG list > <cut> > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
