On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:16:30PM +0100, Johannes Wei?l wrote: > > Is this a debian-hurd mailinglist or a spam-container? > > Why are there so many spam-posts? > > Because there are so many spammers. > > And there are so many posts about spam because there are so many people that > discuss spam on mailing lists. And that's almost as much mails as the spam itself. :)) > Please read a couple of dozen of the hundreds of mails discussing spam on > Debian mailing lists, mailing lists, usenet or mail boxes. Yes, there was something about it on one of the Hurd lists. IIRC it was help-hurd. Some of the people gave some procmail rules which help. There is also spamfiltering software. > The main reason we can not filter out all spam is so that people can post > without being subscribed. I think this is a great feature, which I have > often used. I would rather ignore a dozen useless mails than to miss the > one mail that helps me with a problem I have. (And I have simply dropped a > bug fix or tip if I found out that there is no place for me to send it > without subscribing to a list or registering on a web page). AFAIK debian filters some of the spam. But the problem is that you should _only_ filter the spam and not all the other mail. The GNU server has software which adds X-RBL headers to the spam mails. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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