Re: Spam on Alsa-devel.

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 12:12, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:37:04 +0200 (CEST)
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> > 
> > > So, any post by a non-member will have to be authorised, the the 
> > > authorisation will be quiet.
> > > In this way, you can filter out all SPAM manually, so that it does
> > > not get posted to the list.
> > > If mail is from the kernel mailing list, accept it, if it is from a 
> > > non-member, manually reject it, saying only members can submit
> > > messages.
> > 
> > I don't have a power to filter messages every day.. Any volunteer?
> 
> couldn't this be automated? every message having lkml somewhere in its
> headers comes through? everything else from non members not.
> 

No, because the message could have come from any of the kernel
developers.  All this would do is allow any spam to the list to go
through as long as LKML was cc:ed.  In theory this has a HUGE hole, in
practice, maybe it could work well.

I still think it's worth a spam here and there to not have to subscribe
to a list to post to it.  It works for LKML, they do get spammed but
only one or two a day.  If the one or two spams a day are REALLY
intolerable then we should report the problem to sourceforge.

Lee



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