Re: Spam control (was Re: [PHP-DB] wealthy)

> This is mainly addressing Rasmus, now... my sincere apologies if I'm being > thick-headed (which I've been known to do)... but the archives are only > recieving mail... which means they're only subscribers, not contributors... > and even so, since they're subscribed, they would be able to post (not that > an archive needs to...) Why should people reading archives somewhere not be able to send replies and questions to the list? > And as for NNTP, which is the only real problem I can see at this point, it > is my understanding that the news server subscribes to the mailing list > (hence how the messages get from the list to the boards...)... are we not > able to modify the nntp interface to email from a certain allowed sender and > set a reply-to header that would point to the actual sender's email address > (as entered)? This particular case could probably be taken care of. > I don't mean to be a nuissance and I don't assume that you do nothing, > Rasmus. I only assume that the group can only do so much, and to make my > push for more anti-spam measures stronger, nobody seems to know why we > haven't done more. > > Still, is there nothing more we can do? If there isn't, I'll drop it - > there's no point in beating a dead horse... I just wanna make sure it's a > dead horse and not something we could improve. No amount of spam protection is going to be perfect. The absolute best way to deal with spam on a mailing list is simply to tap your 'd' key and move on. If you feel you want to do something, help track it down, but don't reply to the list. -Rasmus