Spam on the mailing lists

[Milan Zamazal]

Some of you may be upset about the spam on the GNU GNATS mailing lists.
Please note that:

- We are not responsible for sending spam, so it's useless to get angry
  on any of us here, the spammers are the right target for your rage.

- I'm not ignorant about the problem.  There is a quite aggressive
  filter installed on bug-gnats@ now, it catches about a dozen spams per
  day.

- If any spam passes through, I don't see it, it's filtered out by
  various processors between the mail server and my screen.

- By unsubscribing from the GNATS mailing lists because of the spam you
  won't help GNATS development nor spam fighting.

- If you encounter spam here, you may forward it to me and I'll try to
  add another rule to the filter.  But please don't do it everyone -- I
  don't want to be, ehm, spammed by forwarded spam.  It would be best,
  if a single person could volunteer.

- I'm looking for a volunteer for spam discarding.  My Internet
  connection is relatively slow and expensive and the current Mailman
  interface is a bit uncomfortable in discarding the caught spam.  This
  would probably be only a temporary job, since a future Mailman version
  will improve in this area.

Since spam is off-topic here, I suggest to discuss it in private instead
on the mailing list.

Thanks,

Milan Zamazal

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