Hi, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:15:33PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Dear Line, > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:46:11 -0500, Pouchard, Line Catherine wrote: > > Dear list organisors: > > > > Is it possible to keep this kind of spam of the list? > > I have already asked our administrator (Axel, Cc'd) to erase this > offending spam from our mailing list archive. And now, Axel, please > _also_ remove this post from Line, as she quoted the message in its > entirety :( Actually the spam was recogniyed at level 3.0, but the filters deny at 5.0 and above. Maybe we should lower the spam barrier (which would hit a couple of false positives, but better to get an email a month denied than be spammed that way). > > Maybe restricting access? > > This would unfortunately be against our openness ideals. We want our > users to be able to ask for help without going through the hassle of > subscribing (and later unsubscribing) to a mailing list. > > What we would need it slightly better filtering, maybe. Alas, it's > difficult to fight against this kind of annoyance. In general I agree with Line, the net has become a bad place, and while openness always sounds good, it does do more harm than good these days. :( OTOH wikipedia shows that it can work, but at the expense of many volunteer time to rectify whatever the bad guys break. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20090126/e430017a/attachment.bin
