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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:17:04AM -0700, Alan wrote: |
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> I have to agree with this. Someone mentioned the reason was |
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> accessability to new users, but I'm in the same situation as Burton, on |
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> a bunch of lists, all subscriber only, except for gimp-dev (which gets |
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> spam as well, or did when I was still receiving mail to it). My feeling |
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And here is the thing I want to stress a little further. I think it's |
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worse for a mailinglist to lose people unsubscribing due to spam than |
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missing one or two questions from newbies who can't bother to |
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subscribe in the first place. |
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> Totally OT, I installed bogofilter this morning thanks to the |
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> suggestions on the list, and it seems to be working fine so far. Only |
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> one piece of spam caught, but it's one for one so far :) Kinda wierd |
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> when you actually *want* spam (if only to catch it!) |
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I installed spamassassin a month or so ago and since then I've spent |
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more time looking at spam than ever before. I just love to see what |
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keywords and phrases it has triggered on. :) |
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Brgds, |
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//Humming |
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