RE: [SPAM] - Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: latest flood of UCE - Found word(s) UCE in the subject

[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

We can get spam from -user, -devel, and -announce.  If there are 7 spam in the 
devel archive, that means about 20 spams in 20 days for the three.  (It also 
means that the archive is almost all spam messages, since these lists are low 
traffic) It may be my fault if I'm noticing this problem, because I've had to 
request to turn off the corporate spam filter for this list because it caught 
too many positives at one point.  How many legitimate users use the ability to 
post without subscribing?  Isn't it rather cumbersome to browse the architve a 
few days later for the replies when you're not subscribed?  My vote is to turn 
off non-member subscriptions.

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Luc-Eric Rousseau
Team Leader, User Interface
Softimage|XSI


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf
> Of Drew Hess
> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:32 PM
> To: Anders Dahnielson
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: latest flood of UCE - Found
> word(s) UCE in the subject
> 
> 
> Anders Dahnielson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The spam is probably coming from senders not subscribed to the
> > mailing list, so changing the Mailman settings to only accept
> > postings from subscribed addresses would stop most of it.
> 
> 
> Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.
> 
> I agree with Bob, there's not much that can be done about spam on the
> server/mailing list side.  I would prefer not to make the mailing list
> post-by-subscriber-only because a) spam bots can easily subscribe to
> mailing lists anyway, b) it would make it inconvenient for legitimate
> users of OpenEXR to ask questions on the lists without being
> subscribed (I personally don't like mailing lists which require me to
> be subscribed in order to ask a question, it's not very friendly), and
> c) if I had to moderate such posts (in order to allow non-members to
> post), now *I* have to deal with all the spam that hits the list, and
> I don't have time for that; that's what my spam filter is for.
> 
> Looking at the archive for openexr-devel, we've only received 7 spams
> on the list this month.  That's fewer than 1 per day, which is nothing
> by today's spam "standards."
> 
> For those of you who are seeing spam from this list, please check out
> a decent spam filter; I recommend http://spambayes.sf.net.  I use it
> and I've never seen a single spam from any of the OpenEXR lists (nor
> From anywhere else, for that matter).
> 
> If you feel very strongly that you should not have to run a spam
> filter in order to subscribe to this list, please email me privately,
> and if enough people object, I'll reconsider the policy.  However, I
> posted the same offer on openexr-announce and nobody took me up on it,
> so I suspect that for most people, this is just not an issue.
> 
> 
> d
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