Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:59:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SPAM - Re: (((((((-= Enter To Win One of 25 Dream Vacations!! =-))))))) Message-ID: <20011011015923.A15266@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <01090508544004.01602@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <20010904221839.A12254@redhat.com> <005b01c151b5$6641c000$221007d5@andreas> <3BC5315B.8090407@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BC5315B.8090407@ece.gatech.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:42:51AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Sigh. I *know* I shouldn't extend this thread, but I just can't help >myself. > >1) There IS filtering of messages. There are FAR more spams received by >the maillist processor than actually make it out to all of us on the >cygwin list. > >2) Perhaps LKML's filtering is better than ours. However, some of the >draconian measures used by LKML have resulted in many "false positives" >-- I seem to recall one long-time, well-respected kernel hacker who >eventually gave up on the kernel, because he was continually being >rejected by the auto-spam filter. > >3) Cygwin used to use ORBS to block spam. However, AFAIRC, ORBS is >dead, MAPS has been taken over by the borg and the dirty tricks squad, >etc etc. Basically, it seems as though the spammer's lawyer-vampires >have managed to neuter these spam-block services. (I'm vague on the >details, go do a web search on cnet.com or slashdot for more info...) The list of spam blockers that we use is at http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html. It's a little out of date now since I removed MAPS and RSS and added spews.org but it at least talks about the measures we take. We block a lot of spam every day. Some gets through. Sorry. I couldn't resist responding to a reasonable voice. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/