Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:34:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:49:20PM -0700, William Ballard
> (40414.nospam@comcast.net) wrote:
> > Is it fixable? Do I need to start giving up on Debian being able to
> > filter the spam?
>
> You might start taking note of significant contributors to the list,
> whitelisting these, and possibly filtering out messages from unknown or
> spammy sources with no reference to existing posts. Something of a
> harsh measure, but seems we're headed this way.
That's a *particularly* harsh measure on debian-user, where many of the
messages starting threads are from "unknown" users looking for help.
> > and do Bayesian filtering myself on mail I get from the lists? I
> > think I read that so far only Bayesian filtering works and "klecker"
> > can't handle it, so it's going to keep coming.
That sounds like fairly out-of-date news: it's been a long time since
klecker was involved in list mail. (Was it ever?)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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