[Savannah-hackers] Re: hello

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Mathieu Roy wrote:

> Ramanan Selvaratnam <address@hidden> a tapoté :
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> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have two questions.
> >
> > 1/ Are savannah mailing lists down or experiencing any delays today.
> >    
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> Not that I'm aware about.
>  
Well it is working now.

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> > 2/ going through the archives of this list I see a lot of spam.
> >
> > Is there a way to control this menace?
> > I am subscribed to a Savannah list where the there was once a lot of
> > spam but over the past six months only about two.
> >    
>
> Since several month, all mails transiting via gnu.org are filtered by
> spamassassin. To me, it's very effective. See the Savannah hackers
> mailing-list for instance
>
> In this mailing-list, you can see lot of spam because the list is
> unused. As a matter of fact, I even set it as "hidden" from the
> Savannah front page. I added following a suggestion but apparently it
> not useful. Users of the Savannah software write to savannah-dev, and
> users of the Savannah platform write to savannah-hackers.
So I have written to the correct place with a mailing list related 
question.(?)

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> > I am looking to work on a translation project which would require
> > some elderly non-software related people to participate via mailing
> > lists.
> >
> > A bit concerned about the current spam level and the nature of the spam too.
> >    
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> Take a look at
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2003-05/threads.html 
> you'll find about 3 spams for the month, on more than one hundred
> mails.
>
> I think that this is not concerning. 3 spam / 500 mails seem a very
> acceptable ratio.
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>  
Your answer is very helpful. Thanks.

Ciao,

Ramanan