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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:59:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SPAM - Re: (((((((-= Enter To Win One of 25 Dream Vacations!! =-)))))))
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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It's a little out of date now since I removed MAPS and RSS and added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

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