[ofa-general] Re: [SPAM] - Re: [ewg] Re: Dropped OpenFabrics list messages (!) - Email found in subject

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Oct 25 13:43:35 PDT 2007


 > I don't know if this is possible, but why not just have list
 > subscribers bypass the SPAM filter.  Those people that aren't
 > subscribers will get the usual filtering applied.  Seems to me this
 > would keep the SPAM situation the same and only inconvenience those
 > non-subscribers that happen to trigger the SPAM filter.  Again, I'm
 > not sure if this is technically feasible, but it doesn't seem like it
 > would be difficult to implement.

That seems like a good idea.

Another possibility to consider would be moving the general@ list to
someplace like vger.kernel.org (if the kernel.org team is agreeable):
they seem to be able to handle having linux-kernel be an open mailing
list with very high traffic and minimal spam.

 - R.



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