Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 19:44:46 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Spam Filtering Message-ID: <201305111744.r4BHik5Y069562@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 11 May 2013 17:09:44 BST." <20130511170944.20e6037204c186923a385d7e@sohara.org>
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Hi, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2013 02:26:26 +0200 > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > > > If list write access was changed to Subscribers Only: > > - List could silently discard such spam. > > - Postmaster@ (& webmaster@ weeding web archives) would have less work. > > - Less individual need to select spam phrases to copy to personal > > filters (& less time searching WTF dialect American above meant in > > English ;-). > > The downside is that it would require people to subscribe in order > to ask a question, True. I suggest the up side outweighs the down side though. I've always felt when I as a newbie somewhere, wanted to post any other project's mail list to ask a question & get free help, then I owed it to those there to subscribe if necessary. However, FreeBSD could always provide a web Captcha anti spam validater for those too lazy/ uncommited to subscribe questions@ ? > this is also the reason for the convention of using > "Reply to all" in FreeBSD mailing lists. It's been a convention for a > *long* time, at least since FreeBSD 1.1 was shiny and new in 1993. I'm not intending to question or suggest any change re CC behaviour. (Maybe you mis-read or mis-infered what I intended, or maybe I mis-wrote, or mis-implied, whatever, please forget that bit, though as background I'd observe: Questions@ didn't exist for quite a while after FreeBSD started, Hackers@ & some others preceded it. Various people prune CC when they get littered with too many CC. ) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative.
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