Thread: [Vim-latex-devel] SPAM again
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From: Preben R. <ra...@pv...> - 2003-12-03 19:08:20
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How many post exactly do you get from people that are not in the list? I don't buy this argument. It seems to me that the only purpose this policy servers is to allow a bunch of spam messages to get in. Can you please reconsider? Make a form on your web-page that people can fill out if they have problems. Then this result can be mailed to a moderator before inclusion in the mailinglist. It isn't hard and it would save the rest of us a lot of very annoying spam. Preben -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language." |
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From: Srinath A. <sr...@fa...> - 2003-12-04 00:01:02
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Preben Randhol wrote: > How many post exactly do you get from people that are not in the list? > I don't buy this argument. It seems to me that the only purpose this > policy servers is to allow a bunch of spam messages to get in. > Actually, a _lot_ of very useful e-mail to the list comes from people not subscribed. For example, recently there were quite a lof of new very useful features added to the folding scheme... I think you might have noticed a few e-mails between Zhang Linbo and myself regarding this. Linbo is not subscribed to the list... But he has written some extremeley helpful e-mails including submitting patches etc. So has Alex Jakushev... again very helpful e-mails which include helpful patches... These are just examples from the last week or so. In general I do find that lots of non-subscribers write useful emails to the list. Even when they do not submit patches, 95% of the people who submit bug reports are not subscribed... I would hate to create a barrier of entry for them since that would mean that the vim-latex developement would suffer. > Can you please reconsider? Make a form on your web-page that people can > fill out if they have problems. Then this result can be mailed to a > moderator before inclusion in the mailinglist. It isn't hard and it > would save the rest of us a lot of very annoying spam. I would _really_ welcome the suggestion if someone agrees to moderate. I unfortunately, have no time or inclination for doing this. I am already swamped with too many things to do to take something as tedious as this upon myself. If you wish, you could moderate :-) (seriously...) Quite frankly though, I would suggest setting up some good anti-spam software on your system... I am seriously thinking of setting up spambayes myself, but again, haven't had time... Sorry about the pain, I feel it every day... :( Srinath |
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From: Florent M. <ma...@ef...> - 2003-12-04 03:33:21
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:01:56PM +0100, Srinath Avadhanula wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Can you please reconsider? Make a form on your web-page that people > > can > > fill out if they have problems. Then this result can be mailed to a > > moderator before inclusion in the mailinglist. It isn't hard and it > > would save the rest of us a lot of very annoying spam. > I would _really_ welcome the suggestion if someone agrees to moderate. > I unfortunately, have no time or inclination for doing this. I am > already swamped with too many things to do to take something as > tedious > as this upon myself. If you wish, you could moderate :-) > (seriously...) I can do it if you need. > Quite frankly though, I would suggest setting up some good anti-spam > software on your system... I am seriously thinking of setting up > spambayes myself, but again, haven't had time... With spamassassin, i never get spam from this list -- Florent Manens EFREI Promo - 2003 ma...@ef... |
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From: Srinath A. <sr...@fa...> - 2003-12-04 04:30:17
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Hi Florent, On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Florent Manens wrote: > > already swamped with too many things to do to take something as > > tedious > > as this upon myself. If you wish, you could moderate :-) > > (seriously...) > > I can do it if you need. > Thanks for offering to moderate! :) Sourceforge.net uses GNU mailman to administer the vairous settings. There is an option there to make the administrator moderate every e-mail.. The way it will work is that when a new-mail to the list arrives, the administator is sent an e-mail. The administator will then log into the web interface and decide whether to defer or accept the e-mail... Does this sound like something which you can do? If so, I will e-mail the administrator password for just the list-management to you privately. > > spambayes myself, but again, haven't had time... > > With spamassassin, i never get spam from this list I am going to do this myself one of these days... Its not really that much of a pressing problem for me since my ISP (fastmail.fm) handles spam decently. (although not perfectly) Srinath |
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From: Florent M. <ma...@ef...> - 2003-12-04 11:39:25
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:31:17PM +0100, Srinath Avadhanula wrote: > Thanks for offering to moderate! :) > Sourceforge.net uses GNU mailman to administer the vairous settings. > There is an option there to make the administrator moderate every > e-mail.. The way it will work is that when a new-mail to the list > arrives, the administator is sent an e-mail. The administator will > then > log into the web interface and decide whether to defer or accept the > e-mail... Does this sound like something which you can do? Hum, view all mails posted will be a hard work, it may be better to review only non-member post : (from mailman doc) "member_posting_only Under nearly all circumstances this should be set to "yes." This restriction will cause Mailman to hold for administrative review all posts to the list that do not originate from a list member. Setting this to yes prevents you from being spammed by people who manage to get a hold of your list address." It will be better than moderate all posts no ? F. |
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From: Preben R. <ra...@pv...> - 2003-12-04 11:59:48
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Srinath Avadhanula <sr...@fa...> wrote on 04/12/2003 (10:23) : > Quite frankly though, I would suggest setting up some good anti-spam > software on your system... I am seriously thinking of setting up > spambayes myself, but again, haven't had time... I am running a good spam filter, but unfortunately all spams to this list slips through due to the statistical scores. But at least I hope the list is closed so that others cannot get my e-mail address from it. I get about a 100 spams a day and I'm really getting tired of it. 95% percent is filtered out by the filter. -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language." |
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