From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Spam in the NFS list
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:36:30 +1000
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To: Jake Gold <jake@staunch.org>
In-Reply-To: message from Jake Gold on Tuesday May 13
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On Tuesday May 13, jake@staunch.org wrote:
> 
> Is there any reason for leaving the list open to email from non-subscribed users?
> 
> Most of the technical lists that I'm on have adopted a
> subscriber-only email policy with little resistance from their
> members... 
> 

No resistance from the members, but ofcourse it isn't the members who
this inconveniences, at least not directly.

I am very much against making this list closed.  I want bug reports to
be sent here.  I tell people who send bug reports to be personally to
send them here.  It means that more people can share the support load,
and it means that questions and answers get archived.  Anything that
decreases the ease of bug reports getting to this list is a BAD THING.

As far as spam goes, I agree that spam is a problem, but I think that
hiding is not the right solution.
I don't feel there is an enormous amount of spam on this list
(certainly as a percentage) but I agree that it has been increasing.
I am on several @vger.kernel.org lists and they get substantially less
spam (though not zero).  This is because the admins have set up
filters that discard lots of common spam.  One would expect that a
similar thing would be available on sourceforge, though I haven't
looked.

In short, I am happy to raise the barrier to sending mail a little,
e.g. to exclude HTML-only email and some common strings - see
  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-taboos.txt

but I am not happy to raise it so high that only subscribers can post.

NeilBrown


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