SPAM

[Johan Gunnarsson]

On 7/28/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:40:20PM -0700, Bill Fassler wrote:
> > > I'm sure everyone has noticed the annoying SPAM that is now being distributed by the mailing list.  Is someone working on stopping that?
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > The list is being filtered by spamprobe.  Between that, and my own local
> > filtering, I am seeing zero spam.  I cannot tell how much of that is
> > being caught at the server and how much by my local filtering.
> >
> > luke
>
> Looking at the archive, I see exactly ONE piece of spam making it past
> the server side filter.  This does not seem at all to be a significant
> problem.

4 pieces last 2-3 days.

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-July/002076.html
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-July/002101.html
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-July/002091.html
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2007-July/002118.html

>
> Being an open list that anyone can post to has advantages and
> disadvantages.  The primary advantage, as I see it, is that we get
> feedback from anyone looking to report a problem or ask a question, not
> just those willing to subscribe.  The primary disadvantage is that no
> spam filtering system is 100% foolproof.  Without moderating everything,
> it is guaranteed that at least a little spam will get through.

Totally.

>
> luke
>
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