On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:19:38PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This has been discussed pretty extensively a while ago. The conclusion > was that d-u has pretty effective spam-filtering, the signal-to-noise > ratio is very low. I understand your point, however it's annoying when for example, in my case, in the past 8 months (since I've been observing closely) any UCE that gets through to my e-mail, is all from debian-user. We're not talking about a lot, but still it's too much. So, when people like me, whom are on many e-mail lists, only get UCE from debian-user, then I would think it would be prudent for Debian to rethink their policy regarding how "open" these lists are currently. It's not appropriate in my view, to allow anyone to post to debian-user, without first subscribing. Apparently, anyone can post to debian-user, without needing to do that step. I don't buy the argument that it's too much of a hurdle to expect a newbie to debian to subscribe -- Subscribing to e-mail lists is done pretty much everywhere, so it's an expected task, by pretty much anyone using them. This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the onus is on Debian to fix things on their end. Being too open has it's price, and it's the subscribers to this list that are basically being deluged with UCE, due to Debian not acting accordingly to the best of their ability. Hell, it's not like Debian.org doesn't have the expertise to do what's right IMO. -- Regards Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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