Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 17:09:44 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Spam Filtering Message-ID: <20130511170944.20e6037204c186923a385d7e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <201305090026.r490QQeA095142@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <1368039547.0568389241738319@mf7.sendgrid.net> <201305090026.r490QQeA095142@fire.js.berklix.net>
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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, 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. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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