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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: Spam to the list
From:       Seth Kurtzberg <seth () cql ! com>
Date:       2006-07-29 19:10:53
Message-ID: 20060729151053.e7986249.seth () cql ! com
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:49:24 +0200 (CEST)
Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> wrote:

> + "U. George" <gatgul@gatworks.com>:
> 
> > unfortunately, this list, because of the spam, is being rbl'd .
> > This does not make the spam/verification strategy effective -
> > enough.
> 
> It's good enough for those of us who don't rely on such overzealous
> RBLs.  I very much doubt that you're going to manage to convince DJB
> to use conventional spam filtering on the list in order to weed out
> the tiny percentage of spam messages that get through.
> 
> > After the one day that this list is placed on the rbl list, then all
> > the queued up mail is mailed. But in the mean time, for that day,
> > the listserv would be wasteing bandwidth on all the users it cannot
> > mail to. Not to mention all the extra log entries for all the extra
> > attempts.
> 
> For such a high-volume list as this one, the extra resource usage is
> likely not great enough to bother anybody.

Indeed one can make a reasonable argument that the RBL software needs to be fixed, \
not this list.  I'm on a fair number of lists and this one has less spam than any of \
the others; in my experience spam on this list is quite rare.

> 
> - Harald
> 


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