From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage |
Date: | 2008-01-16 14:50:47 |
Message-ID: | 20080116145047.GF5106@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Actually, it wasn't that bad. Only four messages were of that type,
> while about 90 were the usual viagra/stopsmoking/makemoneynow variety.
90? Wow. pgsql-hackers and the other lists I moderate certainly do not
get that sort of traffic. As moderator I did not see any of the
pseudo-Christian type Tom is complaining about (I did get about a dozen
of them as a subscriber of course).
> I'd love to see those dropped unceremoniously before even making
> it to the queue, as the great majority of them are not 'tricky' and
> should be picked up by any spam filtering software. I used to be in
> the camp of leaning towards lenience just so we don't accidentally
> throw out a legitimate message from a non-subscriber, but at this
> point, I don't think it is worth the extra hassle. More importantly,
> the sheer volume of things to moderate probably means that it is
> more likely that a moderation error will cause a real message to be
> dropped than a stricter spam filter.
Actually, I have received several complaints from people whose messages
are lost in the void. It's annoying because there's no way to figure
out why they were discarded. So I vote against making the rules stronger.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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