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From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Arie van Wingerden <xapwing@gmail.com>, kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Getting SPAM via mailing list ... what can I do about it?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <763f9bbf-3523-552b-2849-49298c500aeb@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkALSFcNRjJVqM_eiA1=kQ4jPj8vCqj3d4Riic05c+DNBTaBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/29/18 1:34 AM, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
> Just got this spam via the mailing list address::
> Australia Immigration Services immi.aus@mail.com via
> <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=nl> sourceware.org

The mailing list software at sourceware.org seems to do a pretty good but not
perfect job of keeping out spam - the archive shows about one spam message per quarter.
Some of the ones that get through were caught by my own email provider or
client software (Thunderbird).

So it seems like a pretty minor problem.  I could ask the SourceWare
administrators to fine-tune their spam filters, but I think they're
doing an adequate job.  Some amount of spam is inevitable these days.

At some point it might make sense to move the mailing list from
sourceware (perhaps to a host that uses mailman 3),
but at this point IMO "it ain't broke".

-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-29  8:34 Arie van Wingerden
2018-10-30  1:38 ` Per Bothner [this message]
2018-10-30  9:50   ` Arie van Wingerden

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