Re: Spam on the list

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:50 +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > Not everybody follows mailinglists through the mailinglist itself. Some
> > use gmane, rss feeds, just stumble upon the web archives. If you need to
> > discuss with the developers just once or twice having to subscribe
> > through some mailinglist before you can join the conversation is really
> > inconvenient.
> 
> Inconvenient?  Deleting 10's of SPAM every day is *more* inconvenient.

That is totally automatic. You don't even see the SPAM because the mail
server can easily filter it out. At least I have never seen any spam to
the list.

>   Who is more 
> important to the elfutils discussion - those who are subscribed and take the 5 seconds to 
> get subscribed, or random strangers who are too lazy to subscribe?

I think you aren't seeing the bigger picture. It isn't total strangers,
it is just people who don't want to or can subscribe to each and every
mailinglist just to have a quick conversation with the other hackers.

> As has been mentioned, there is no mailserver administrator within reach who can do this. 
>   There is however a list admin who can set the list to subscriber-only.

Or maybe we should move the mailinglist then in that case to a setup
where things can be setup with automagic spam filtering.

Cheers,

Mark