Re: *****SPAM***** Welcome to Join4Free.Com

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:44:49PM +0100, pplf wrote:
> Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >Why don't you put Join4Free.Com in your own procmail filter?
> 
> And if someone doesn't want to run Procmail on his Linux ?
> 

   Well, I guess I'm not overly concerned about the problems of someone who
won't lift a finger to help themselves, but expects others to take care of
problems for them.


> The solution for this list, which is the one adopted by a lot of lists 
> (like recently gnupg.org mialing-lists) is : moderation.
> 

   You're asking for the list owner to go to a heck of a lot of extra work. And
I'd definitely object to "volunteer moderators" -- how do we know we can trust
them? 


> All the e-mails received from addresses who hadn't subscribed are sended 
> to a moderator, who validate every week the *real* linux questions, and 
> delete all spams...
> 

   The cypherpunk node at lne.com has pretty effectively solved this problem
without too much work on the part of the listowner, if this list were to seek
such a solution, I'd suggest looking there first.

  However -- what I do really object to is the fact that I didn't get the spam
that started this thread, but now I've gotten 7 emails regarding it. Which is
the real problem, the spam or people posting complaints to the list about it? If
you must complain, why not do it to the listowner directly? Why burden the rest
of us with what is *your* problem? 
  And with all the spam that comes to everyone everyday, if you really aren't
running procmail or some other filter, I guess I don't know what to
say. Probably I should just add the complainers to the filter. 


-- 
Harmon Seaver	
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com

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