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From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com>
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Subject: Re: Spam on -ports
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> On 26 Oct, 2017, at 14:50, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> Is it official FreeBSD policy to allow spammers free reign on this list, or is the list owner merely incompetent?

I believe spam is filtered by software, a spam-suspicious message is sent to the moderator. 

Spam filters should not filter out good messages, thus some spam gets through.

But freebsd-questions seems to get the most spam of all FreeBSD emailing lists, much more than freebsd-ports..

Tom