Re: Bug#514039: backscatter on the debian-edu list, again
On 12:42 Sun 01 Mar 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sonntag, 1. März 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > I've already droped in rules to deal with this; the previous ones
> > hadn't taken effect due to a warning that I didn't catch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > It doesn't really matter to me what you folks decide, but since you
> > decided as a group not to do moderation, some how claiming that
> > listmaster@ is the nefarious party is rather disingenuous.
>
> I didnt claim that. I claimed that filtering backscatter will not work in the
> long run and didnt work in the last week. The latter is definitly true, for
> the former I am very happy to be proven wrong.
>
> (I just doubt it will be the case in the long run: there will be always new
> backscatter (new languages, new wordings) which is something which can
> hardled without redesigning email and people, thats why I think we will go to
> moderation some day, just because keeping subscribed people is more
> importannt than a delay in posting appearance (and the potential of loss due
> to bad moderation) of unsubscribed posters.)
>
> > It certainly doesn't motivate this listmaster to have anything more to
> > deal with this issue. Best of luck.
>
> I'm sorry that my frustration about a problem you're fighting well has
> demotivated you. You're work is very much appreciated.
>
> (Sigh, _I_ can deal with such backscatter, mental ignore works just fine _for
> me_ with the tiny amount your filters let through. The lists just doesnt seem
> to want to / aint able.)
>
> To bring this back to something more constructive again, as I want to help
> improve the filters, I'd still like to know the answer to this:
>
> Do you also requiere three backscatter reports like you do for spam submitted
> over the webinterface?
So, what is the outcome of this bug report? As far as it can be seen
from the bug log, there's no more need for list moderation, is that
correct? If so, this ticket could closed.
Just checking in order to have listmasters' TODO list as short as
possible :-)
D.
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