Re: [Bug-gnubg] too much spam?

[Marco van Tol]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:44:24PM +0100, Nis Jorgensen wrote:
> Joern Thyssen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It's possible to change the mailing list so only members may post. This
> > should effectively reduce the spam to nil, but will make it more
> > difficult for a user to report a problem, since the user will have to
> > subscribe first.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> My 0.91 cents:
> 
> - This makes it harder for users to jump in with a quick question. This
> could be seen as a problem, or a blessing ;-)
> - Does this limit us to one email address per person? Can the address be
> changed (I remember mailman having some problems with this).
> - I think that this to some extent means "giving up" against spam.
> 
> So I am mostly against it.

It's not my intention to upset people, but how doable is it to run anti spam
software on the mail server, just for this list? I don't think the traffic
in this list is so high that a normal machine couldn't handle spam checking
it.

Yet another $0.02 ;-)

Marco

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