On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:22:57AM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > > Den 9. aug 2004, kl. 7:21, skrev Sam Vilain: > > > Warren Togami wrote: > > >> Can you please do something about the spam on the list? > > On the serious side, i find it a problem as well. > > <can-of-worms> ...or only allow posting from subscribers </>
won't really help with the number of viruses and M$ machines (MUAs) lingering around even among the linux-vserver community ... or do you prefere to receive trusted 'Out of office', 'Code Red' or whatever spam from actual ml subscribers? what about doing the following: email signed with a known gpg/pgp key will be accepted and redistributed without a second check email from know source (whilelist) will be accepted and scanned for typical viral and/or ooO messages, those get rejected email from a sender from the blacklist will be dropped without further notice email from unknown source will be checked, and obvious spam/virus should be removed automatically the message then is delayed, until somebody can review it (he/she willl have to decide what to do with that mail) if a 'clean' mailing list is of such importance to the linux-vserver folks, please go ahead and implement those or similar checks, I'm volunteering to do some of the reviewing, if it can be done via email ... > Martin/Herbert. Please recognize that the spam situation > is turning useful people away. As for myself, I tend to read > this mailbox about once a fortnight now, purely because of the > crap I have to step over. > > Yes, I skim LKML. But with 100x the message, the S/N ratio > is still high enough to parse. I also read it in a different > way---reading what I need to. Whereas with vserver-list, I > would /expect/ myself to read/parse/reply to every email. > > So, to sum up: > > (1) I'm not going to unsubscribe (that would kill the archives...) > (2) Don't expect people to carry on interacting with the mailing list > > [Just looking at the messages-per-day, (2) has been the case > for quite a while now. I would love to see that trend reversed ...soon] me either, but it seems that folks do not want to use the mailing list anyway, for example I suggested to post bug reports to the ml (unconditionally), so far either there are no bugs, or folks do not do so (can understand that, the irc service is probably better and much simpler for all of them ;) TIA, Herbert > Thank you for listening, > > -Paul > - -- > Is there no safe way to travel? London, GB > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBFzRoc444tukM+iQRAqCzAJ9/pdgmd0BQe6pd8ZsRmw18hPJgkgCgw3R3 > PqVxR51vx6IV1nF1BSlu3lo= > =dSZ8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
