Re: PEAR CVS mailinglist

<quote who="Martin Jansen"> >> As most of you who are subscribed to pear-cvs I'm very angry about the >> spam recieved there every day. >> >> Would it be possible to close the list for every host except the PEAR >> host? That would save me a good part of my daily spam ammount. > This will only be a intermediate solution to avoid spam: As soon as > spammers change from pear-cvs to pear-(dev|core|qa), the same problem > exists again. That's not completely correct. IIRC there is currently a mechanism, that you have to verify your mailadress before posting to either of this lists. This is not implemented for pear-cvs and pear-webmaster lists. For that, these get spammed, while the other lists stay clean. > Generally, avoiding spam by making mailing lists read-only is the > wrong way to go: Instead one should take care that proper filtering > solutions are in place. (I e.g. do not see any spam on the CVS list, > because my combination of SpamAssassin and Bogofilter catches > everything before it reaches my inbox.) I'm currently running SpamAssassin for spam filtering + the integrated filters of Mozilla Thunderbird. The problem I experienced is, that if you mark to many list-mails as spam, those filters start filtering out all list mails. For that, I would require minimaly to have this "mail adress verification" for pear-cvs, too. Regards, Toby -- Tobias Schlitt a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info