Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267585AbUJNUsm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:48:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267301AbUJNUr7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:47:59 -0400 Received: from [81.23.229.73] ([81.23.229.73]:9372 "EHLO mail.eduonline.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267294AbUJNSln (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:41:43 -0400 From: Norbert van Nobelen Organization: EduSupport To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Spam on the list Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:41:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <416EA06E.3050608@colannino.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410142041.33694.Norbert@edusupport.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1459 Lines: 33 Can't we run it through spamassassin with a whitelist for the real users on the list, and standard filters for the new users. With keeping track of the pointsscore they will be auto whitelisted if they are not spammers. On Thursday 14 October 2004 18:03, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/