Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: James Colannino <lkml@colannino.org>
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Subject: Re: Spam on the list
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, James Colannino wrote:

> I was just thinking that the list receives a lot of spam.  Shouldn't the
> list be locked down to be posted to by subsribers only as to curb the
> bulk of that spam?  That's how most mailing lists I'm on are and it
> works well.  Please don't flame me for this... :)  Just thought I'd
> mention it.
>
> James

Most of the spam comes from spam-machines that pretend that
they are vger.kernel.org. Anything on vger.kernel.org isn't
going to help that.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

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