From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: normalperson at yhbt.net (Eric Wong) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:01:17 +0000 Subject: Spam on the mailingslist In-Reply-To: <20120317185337.GD11308@blizzard> References: <4F64D2B8.9070107@gmail.com> <20120317185337.GD11308@blizzard> Message-ID: <20120317200117.GA4719@dcvr.yhbt.net> Lukas Fleischer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:06:48PM +0100, Mariusz Wojcik wrote: > > > This starts to get pretty annoying... About 25% of all mail on this > > > mailing list is spam. > > > > Yes, they're really annoying for the archieve. The easiest solvation > > would be move to Google Groups. It's quite nice and you have as the > > same feature as a mailingslist. The other solvation would be you > > have to register to the mailingslist to post on it. NACK on Google Groups. Their anti-spam measures are weak and just recently I've heard of issues with their moderation notifications not getting through (on the perlbal/mogilefs groups), so new posters got silently ignored for a long time. I also dislike user tracking/profiling done by Google, and it's gotten worse now they're doing G+. > Disabling posting for non-subscribers only shouldn't be too hard. Also, > there should be some additional anti-spam measures, such as > SpamAssassin. Subscribers-only tends to isolate developers from users that _occassionally_ find issues. The git-ML (and LKML) culture favors lists that allow unsubscribed users to post, and I think this does a lot to encourage users to get involved. SpamAssassin is great. I use it on my own server, so it manages to catch much of the spam that comes to this list. Some spam will always get through, but that's email.