On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Gordon Fecyk - Home wrote:
> We're getting e-mail viruses sent to it now. It's time that the bug-wget
> address was directed somewhere else and this thing secured.
I've been silent on this issue before, but I feel a need to chime in here and
agree with Gordon.
I too intend to jump ship if nothing is made about the spam situation. I've
counted ~100 spams on the wget list only this year (yeah, I've stored all of
them).
May I suggest that you set a filter that prevents postings to the list unless
the poster is a subscriber. That filter should forward the mail to the admins
to allow them the pass the mail through if suitable.
You could have X admins to lessen the burden for any single human.
I'm not suggesting that I contribute anything even near to vital for this
project, but I'd say that the frequency of spams here works as a demotivator
for people to particpate. It will effectively prevent contributors and good
mail communication.
This of course matters both wget@ and bug-wget@ as they are directed to the
same list.
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