From: "Jeff Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Monday, October 11, 2004, 11:56:19 PM, martin krafft wrote:
> > Would you please consider not forwarding your spam to mailing lists?
> > Dude, this is the SA mailing list, what do you think runs on
> > people's servers? And what do you think this software does with you
> > post?
>
> > Apart, we all get plenty of spam already, so please refrain from
> > loading even more.
>
> > You could have just cut the relevant parts out of the message. Like
> > the headers only...
>
> Well in some cases, such as debugging an undetected spam,
> it's quite useful to see the entire message to determine
> whether the results can be duplicated on another system.
> If so, it can be a genuine bug in SA. So there are times
> when it's useful to forward spams to these lists.
>
> Regarding filtering spam discussion list messages using
> anti-spam software, that's generally not a good idea since
> the messages can legitimately include spam samples for
> meta-discussion about them. So if you're applying
> SpamAssassin or other anti-spam sofware to these messages,
> don't. :-)
>
> Jeff C.
Spam is in the food chain for this group. Although I suspect it is best to
put it in attachments so that most people who are not interested can avoid
reading it. The message that I forwarded to this list and the apache.org
mail scanner rejected was precisely such food. The person in charge of the
mail processing needs to become aware that in some places, like this one,
spam is grist for our mill. Feed us spam, please. Avoid the middle man.
It makes our response quicker.
{^_-}
