Re: H/W upgrade for lists ?

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:45:16 +0100, Wasim wrote in message 
<[🔎] 409F411C.9060704@wasimahmed.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> Derek Gladding wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 May 2004 06:09 pm, Thomas Ritter wrote:
> > 
> >>>Please, stop spam on l.d.o!
> >>
> >>Someone would have to provide some cluster or mainframe to enable
> >>Spamassassin's Bayes filtering on the lists - my local spamassin
> >with>Bayes got the mail. The existing calculation power is far from
> >being>able to process all the mails of all the lists.
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone able to give a rough, gut-feel estimate of how much
> > CPU/Disc/Mem is needed to achieve this across all the debian lists ?
> > I'd happily throw some $$$ or h/w into the pot towards the required
> > upgrade.
> 
> I guess it would save a lot of processing if only e-mails sent from 
> non-list members were processed for spam.  I can't imagine that
> spammers would sign up for, say, debian-user :-)
> 
> The only thing that this policy would fall over on, would be if
> spammers start forging addresses belonging to valid list-members.

..old news.  New policy suggestions could be wipe all lists clean and
force every "new" list member to state which ip range he posts from, 
and ban all wintendos.

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