On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:20:25PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > These are some statistics about the approximate amount of spam mail > received from all the Debian lists I'm subscribed to during this month > until today: Santiago, I'd be more interested in statistics generated with a later version of spamassassin. If lists.debian.org were to upgrade to SA 2.4x, I'd bet on a serious reduction in spam. Going to moderation style lists is simply unnecessary. By filtering lists through spamassassin 2.43 (even with the compensation for X-Mailing-List, etc making an effective threshold ) I get only a few spams from the lists (no stats, sorry) Plus, I feel that moderation takes away from the overall "openness" of the Debian project. Sure, only slightly spammy messages are moderated, but still, it reduces the community feel. I think developers shouldn't waste their time moderating lists, they should do more useful work, like fixing RC bugs, working on debian-installer, etc. > Naive question: Would anyone object if I ask the listmasters to > implement this procedure? [ Remember, "If you want something done, > do it yourself" does not work at all for things where you need root ]. Yes. I'd object strongly. There are other ways of fixing the problem, and your proposal is simply too time-consuming. -- Duncan Findlay
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