Re: Spam on the list

[Ken Brush]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:51:10 -0700, James Colannino <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was just thinking that the list receives a lot of spam.  Shouldn't the
> list be locked down to be posted to by subsribers only as to curb the
> bulk of that spam?  That's how most mailing lists I'm on are and it
> works well.  Please don't flame me for this... :)  Just thought I'd
> mention it.
> 

They already filter a lot of stuff. And I believe that they are
constantly adding to the filters.

As for making it subscriber-only, that would just make the list less
open. And we like really, really open lists that don't shut out any
opinions.

-Ken
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