From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 13:30: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB6A152CE; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA48468; Mon, 10 May 1999 16:27:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:27:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Mark Murray Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM In-Reply-To: <199905102014.WAA03760@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 May 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > > would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece > > of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the > > time-sequence of email would be lost....we would get some very > > strange threads...could be enteraining. > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > there difficulties that make this impossible? There might be some resistance to this for all lists, but how about just, say, current and committers? Hackers == maybe? I don't think anyone on current or committers will complain. > > > the amount of spam we get is very little. its easy to delte a > > couple messages. i do not believe it is worthwhile ot moderate the > > lists. > > Do you have any stats of "accepted mail" vs "rejected mail" vs SPAM? > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message