David Miller writes:
> From: Lee Revell <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:54:57 -0400
>
> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 18:02 +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> > > Hmmm.
> > > What about using spamhaus.org sbl+xbl list?
> > > I used to receive 1200 spam messages a day, with spamhaus only half of
> > > that.
> >
> > What about doing nothing? The percentage of spam on LKML is vanishingly
> > small.
>
> We definitely need a better spam solution at vger, the reason is that
> the current mechanism (ad-hoc by-hand regexp blocking) creates lots of
> problems. For one thing, it means that people with names in languages
> other than english get blocked when their emails are quoted in
> postings. This is because we don't understand a lot of languages, so
> we just regexp block multibyte characters typically assosciated with
> that language in order to block spam written in that language.
>
> That isn't acceptable in the long term.
Why? So far people managed to transcribe their names into English
alphabet without much trouble (and ado).
Nikita. (see? I do.)
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