Re: ... FLAME WAR... invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive
Why isn't all this nonsense bring treated as spam?
On 5 Jul 2010, at 01:23, Don Gould <don@bowenvale.co.nz> wrote:
> Man what a load of crap on this list this morning!
>
> aa. I never get spam in my debian folder because I run two spam filters of my own. Come on, we have to give some of the job to the user as well as the server.
>
> bb. A week ago I asked about a real problem that I'm having and got nothing on two lists and the forum.
>
> How about putting some effort into stuff that helps users truck on rather than a flame about stupid spam?!
>
> Cheers Don
>
> On 5/07/2010 12:13 p.m., Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 20:08, Russ Allbery<rra@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Jim Popovitch<jimpop@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 19:31, Stephen Gran<sgran@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> No, Russ implied that reality occasionally intrudes on fantasies of
>>>>> spam-free inboxes.
>>>
>>>> Russ stated:
>>>
>>>> It's unlikely to get substantially better than it is (I believe
>>>> we're already rejecting something like 95% of the incoming mail), so
>>>> if it's still not good enough for you, you should probably consider
>>>> unsubscribing.
>>>
>>>> I beleive that 99% is achieveable, and I believe his final
>>>> "unsubscribe" sentence is akin to walking away from the problem.
>>>
>>> Rejecting 99% of the incoming mail would be very bad if 5% of the incoming
>>> mail were legitimate. I meant exactly what I said: Debian rejects
>>> something like 95% of the incoming mail to the mailing lists according to
>>> the latest message from the listmasters. If I'd meant that we reject 95%
>>> of the *spam*, I would have said that.
>>
>> Well, there are two ways to read what you originally wrote, and since
>> the thread discussion was on rejecting spam I took your 95% statement
>> to mean d.o was blocking 95% of spam. I beleive d.o can (and should)
>> attempt to block 100% of spam.
>>
>> You did say the part about "unsubscribe".
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>
>>
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