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>>>>> " " == Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

     > 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.

I fully agree with Neil's opinion.

Only a tiny fraction of the spam I recieve daily comes through this
list, and almost all of that again is killed by a simple rule-based
filter that I maintain (no fancy Bayesian stuff - just common sense).

Cheers,
  Trond


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