Re: [more on spam] and linux-usb* lists

["Stephen J. Gowdy" <gowdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We do already catch a lot of spam with header filters. I spend some 
minutes every day getting rid of them (and letting real posts through, 
or rejecting real HTML posts).

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Oleg Verych wrote:

> On 2006-11-20, David Relson wrote:
> []
>> The simplest solution is to require subscribing to a mailing list.
>> Subscribing involves a message being sent to the new subscriber and a
>> response from the subscriber.  This involves human involvement and is
>> too time consuming for spammers.
>
> It's funny ;-E
>
> If i do something twice, i'm staring to think about some script to do
> this. After 10th time i have script doing stuff (mostly, if i'm familiar
> with the environment ;).
>
> No human cared so far, nobody will care (on server's side of course).
> I'm asking admins, because i have no information on what they actually
> have there. Header filtering as very chip and nice solution, if
> nothing bigger is possible. And btw, why not to move them on
> vger.kernel.org? These are linux-usb(devel, user) lists.
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