Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

["Steve Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Tim Connors said:
> And I get 4 easily
> detected spam/erroneous subscribe messages in one page of headers.
> Since I go through the list with basically my hand on the delete key
> as I watch the subject lines scroll by anyway, that causes me not very
> much noticable pain.

    From my side it does cause problems.  Spam gets through, people reply to
it or the AOL junk and now I'm left with "ok, which is legit and which
isn't?"  I could delete it but now I've also got to retrain 2 bayes DBs.
 Spamassassin's and Thunderbird's.  Even worse is the spam that gets by
d.o's spam filters, my SA setup and TBird's bayes filters.  I've gotta
notice it and retrain that.  It is that last catagory which would be
eliminated by the simple control of a subscription.

    I agree, if you're just concerned with the black and white "delete or
not" hey, not that big of a problem.  But with active efforts to poison
bayesian filters going on a lot of people aren't finding it just that
simple.

-- 
Steve Lamb