Re: [SPAM] - Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: latest flood of UCE - Found word(s) UCE in the subject

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

The OpenEXR list is the one I get with the most spam. For increased 
readability setting sending for subsribed only members would be a good 
choice.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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Am 19.12.05, 11:40 -0800 schrieb Gordon Farrell:

> I also had to request that the OpenEXR lists be whitelisted through our
> corporate filter, but Thunderbird seems to be doing a good job of flagging the
> spam. I do agree, though, that the spam will pollute the archives and it's
> only going to get worse. I'm inclined to go for the members-only option.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> 
> > We can get spam from -user, -devel, and -announce.  If there are 7 spam in
> > the devel archive, that means about 20 spams in 20 days for the three.
> > (It also means that the archive is almost all spam messages, since these
> > lists are low traffic) It may be my fault if I'm noticing this problem,
> > because I've had to request to turn off the corporate spam filter for this
> > list because it caught too many positives at one point.  How many
> > legitimate users use the ability to post without subscribing?  Isn't it
> > rather cumbersome to browse the architve a few days later for the replies
> > when you're not subscribed?  My vote is to turn off non-member
> > subscriptions.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > Luc-Eric Rousseau
> > Team Leader, User Interface
> > Softimage|XSI
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: address@hidden
> > > [mailto:address@hidden Behalf
> > > Of Drew Hess
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:32 PM
> > > To: Anders Dahnielson
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: latest flood of UCE - Found
> > > word(s) UCE in the subject
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Anders Dahnielson <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > The spam is probably coming from senders not subscribed to the
> > > > mailing list, so changing the Mailman settings to only accept
> > > > postings from subscribed addresses would stop most of it.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.
> > > 
> > > I agree with Bob, there's not much that can be done about spam on the
> > > server/mailing list side.  I would prefer not to make the mailing list
> > > post-by-subscriber-only because a) spam bots can easily subscribe to
> > > mailing lists anyway, b) it would make it inconvenient for legitimate
> > > users of OpenEXR to ask questions on the lists without being
> > > subscribed (I personally don't like mailing lists which require me to
> > > be subscribed in order to ask a question, it's not very friendly), and
> > > c) if I had to moderate such posts (in order to allow non-members to
> > > post), now *I* have to deal with all the spam that hits the list, and
> > > I don't have time for that; that's what my spam filter is for.
> > > 
> > > Looking at the archive for openexr-devel, we've only received 7 spams
> > > on the list this month.  That's fewer than 1 per day, which is nothing
> > > by today's spam "standards."
> > > 
> > > For those of you who are seeing spam from this list, please check out
> > > a decent spam filter; I recommend http://spambayes.sf.net.  I use it
> > > and I've never seen a single spam from any of the OpenEXR lists (nor
> > >From anywhere else, for that matter).
> > > 
> > > If you feel very strongly that you should not have to run a spam
> > > filter in order to subscribe to this list, please email me privately,
> > > and if enough people object, I'll reconsider the policy.  However, I
> > > posted the same offer on openexr-announce and nobody took me up on it,
> > > so I suspect that for most people, this is just not an issue.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > d
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> > 
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