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Date:      Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:42:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca>
To:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SurfChina.com - Search Engine for China
Message-ID:  <199901181742.MAA17197@flarn.it.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199901181729.TAA09893@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Jan 18, 1999  7:29:30 pm"

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Quoth John Hay:
> > Ahem,
> > 
> > Is freebsd-stable moderated ??
> 
> Uhm, do I hear someone volunteer? :-) It is more than just a 24x7x365
> job. I don't think it is really feasable for any of the FreeBSD lists,
> except if you can set majordomo to allow mail from subscribers
> directly through and only moderate mail from unsubscribed people and
> even then I think you will have trouble finding people to man the
> moderation posts.

That will help. but it won't stop people *dedicated* spammers who want
to reach the list.  On the other hand, it will help to identify the
spammers, so they can more easily be blacklisted.

What about adding something to the charter of the list that states that
"off-topic commercial bulk mail which the list administrator(s) feel is
obviously classifiable as spam will be cause for immediate removal from
the list, and may result in a request for inclusion in the MAPS RBL.  If
you are unfamiliar with the MAPS RBL, visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/.
If you ignore this, then you waive your right to whine about it later."

Something like that could be added to all the lists here.  It would be a
quick and easy policy adoption, and would probably take up less of our
time than discussing each individual piece of spam that hits one of the
lists.

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  Paul Chvostek                                            <paul@it.ca>
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