Subject: Re: we have to do something about this spam
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/22/2007 09:37:59
[Cc list trimmed down]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:03:07PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:31:30PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >> Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:
> >> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:34:29PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> >> >> We have greylisting in action AFAIK.
> >> >
> >> > We have a lot of well-working spam protection, but the archives do not
> >> > get the full protection (I don't know the details why).
> >> 
> >> We should switch all of the lists over to "subscribers only can post"
> >> and add in a special list so people with more than one address can
> >> subscribe to a "never gets mail but is allowed to post" list. Then the
> >> spam will all go away completely.
> >
> > I think at last the netbsd-help and gnats-bug list has to stay open. 
> > We shouldn't make it more difficult for our users to get help.
> 
> It is much harder still for them to get help when people reply to the
> mailing list and they can't see the reply, and they sit around
> wondering why no one is helping.

At last for gnats they will get a copy of messages sent to the database for
the PR. For netbsd-help as there's no reply-to or followup-to headers added
by the list, replies should go to both the list and the sender.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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