Spams

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Hi,

Marc Eberhard wrote:
> it seems that the number of spams in the mailing list is getting higher and
> higher. Are all those spams coming from the news gateway? If so, we should
> think about stoping to forward mail from the newsgroup to the mailing list,
> but keep the other direction. I know this is hard and I would love to hear a
> better solution. Maybe we can automatically check if the return adress is
> valid or not and then forward the message or reject it. Any better ideas?

The old spam filter was quite sufficient. Unfortunately it broke when
Russell Nelson moved the list, and he hadn't yet time to reinstall it...

gert
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