tons of spam

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>

> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:50 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> There is no way this list can control how much spam you get.
> 
> Not directly, but there are various measures that mailing list software
> can do to mitigate against them causing more spam:
> 
> Making it harder for robots to subscribe themselves.
> Not supplying lists of members on demand.
> Munging e-mail addresses written in message bodies.
> Removing personal addresses from to, CC, reply-to, and from headers.
> 
> And there's probably a few others that don't occur to me at the moment.
> But, having said that, not all of them are a good idea to do.  Some
> anonymising schemes have nasty consequences.

Dear ignored_mailbox, you are demanding the mail servers at the
mailing list assume an unreasonable additional load. Get a life
and some real filtering of your own. Or else help pay for the
mail servers Red Hat uses for Fedora's lists.

{^_^}