Ok, thanks. I already spam-filter a handful of Wikis and mailing lists, so adding one more to the list wouldn't be a burden for me. Yes, that's an offer. 8-) Mark. On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:36:07AM -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
mb> Perhaps a naive question, but why is this list moderated?
mw> So that we don't have to receive lots of spam. I assume that this
Just so. It's undesirable to have moderation, but it's pragmatically necessary. Because it's an IETF list, Harald bends over backwards to keep away barriers from posting, invite free discussion, etc. However, just by the mere fact of having the posting address on various web sites, it attracts a *lot* of spam.
mw> a lot better than have to wade through the 10+ spam per day that
I long for the "good old days" when spam problems could be described in single or double digits. I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but it's likely the ietf-types "raw feed" is some 3-digit number of spams per day. Considering that in the average month there are probably only a dozen or so legitimate messages, well, you can see the situation is pretty bad.
So, as noted, subscribers have direct posting rights (no moderation), and non-subscribers go to an administrator queue. It's obvious to a human what's legitimate and what's nonsense, but it's something that can't yet be turned over completely to automation. -- bill@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3
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