From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Spam in the NFS list
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:53:01 -0700
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To: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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very nicely stated-- i agree totally.

philosophically, i'm on the side of letting
individuals decide on their own tolerance for
spam, and then they can choose their own way
of managing it.

but i also agree that, because this is a
technical support list, it should be open
for non-subscribers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Brown [mailto:neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:37 PM
> To: Jake Gold
> Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [NFS] Spam in the NFS list
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> On Tuesday May 13, jake@staunch.org wrote:
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> > Is there any reason for leaving the list open to email from=20
> non-subscribed users?
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> > Most of the technical lists that I'm on have adopted a
> > subscriber-only email policy with little resistance from their
> > members...=20
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> No resistance from the members, but ofcourse it isn't the members who
> this inconveniences, at least not directly.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> but I am not happy to raise it so high that only subscribers can post.
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> NeilBrown
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