On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Ken Foskey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was there for that discussion. That does not cover what is in my opinion > spam. Facebook and linkedin have their place but not in the context of this > list.
Sure, and as the archive says, the admins "try and prevent spam reaching SLUG using Postfix, SpamAssassin and Mailman checks on content of the mails, rather than the From address" My response was specifically directed at Nick Andrew's statement that "Presumably the slug list should reject email from non-subscribers". > > Ken Foskey > > Ps: I use facebook and linkedin regularly. > > On 23/12/2010, at 12:54 PM, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Nick Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:51:56AM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: >>>> I have already complained to linkedin - not received a response yet. >>> >>> I'm not sure how linkedin can know that [email protected] is a mailing >>> list and not an individual's email address. >>> >>> Presumably the slug list should reject email from non-subscribers, or >>> alternately send a confirm request to the sender (which will eliminate >>> automated emails like linkedin). >> >> A formal motion passed at a general meeting in 2003 requires that the >> SLUG mailing lists not reject email from non-subscribers, or even >> force such emails to be moderated. >> >> http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/10/msg00645.html has >> details on the proposed options and the voting. >> >>> >>> Nick. >>> -- >>> PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ >>> PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 >>> -- >>> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >>> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >>> >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> >> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
