On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/05/2010 11:57 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Fact: the most difficult a process is to follow, the less people would follow it >>> Correct - and if that process is weeding odd emails from gigabytes of >>> off-list spam then they won't read the list. >> True, that's why care must be taken to not let that happen. A >> combination of good spam filtering and moderation seems to work fine >> on other mailing lists. > Why add the extra cost/burden on the server administrator to keep up > with spam filters? Spam creators know how to subscribe to mailing lists, someone said you already have spam. So you have to do it anyway. Probably as time goes by the need would increase. > Forget it! I am against unsubscribed posters to this list. > It will turn this list into a spam galore! Only if you are missing something that other mailing lists have... > if you this list is unfriendly, create your own. There are numnerous > free or nearly free server > accounts you can get. Then you take care of spam on your list. I already do that for a bunch of mailing lists. Not so high traffic, but I know it's doable. Anyway, if non-subscribers are not welcome, then I guess I'll just refrain from posting here just like everybody else, even when I'm asked to do it on Fedora's bugzilla. -- Felipe Contreras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
