From: Simon Matthews (simon_at_paxonet.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 05:27:21 CEST
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ken Bantoft wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Simon Matthews wrote:
>
> > We seem to be getting a lot of SPAM on the freeswan list -- I assume (and
> > if this post goes through, I know) that anyone can post to the list.
> >
> > Can we require that posters be subscribed to the list?
> >
> > Simon
> >
>
> Nope. This is a mailing list FAQ - the maintainers of the list believe in
> free speech, and feel that restricting posts from subscribed users impedes
> on this. As such, no filtering is in place (technically, I think they've
> filtered most of the virus-postings + Scanner Notifications).
>
1. Free speec can be impeded by preventing people from listening -- that
is to say, if people unsubscribe from the list because of the SPAM, where
has your free speech gone?
2. The virus filtering does not seem to be working.
>
> Most of us run some sort of procmail+spamassassin or other filtering to
> clean it up.
Yes, I am also running spamassassin -- at the moment, only tagging -- will
move to deletion soon.
Simon
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