[ofa-general] Spam on mailing list general at openib.org

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Pawel Dziekonski wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 at 10:56:32AM -0400, Dan Noe wrote:
> > On 3/27/2008 10:46, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> >> I'm getting more than a little sick of the spam that's coming in through
> >> the old mail alias on openib.org. It has increased greatly in the past 
> >> week.
> >> Can we either tighten up the protections there, or cut it off? In fact, 
> >> does
> >> it make sense to move the entire list to vger, as is the norm with the 
> >> other
> >> mainline kernel projects?
> >
> > This list accounts for about 10% of the total spam I receive (which is a 
> > lot) and there has been a general uptick in spam since the beginning of the 
> > week.  I think there is a new Windows virus or botnet in the wild since 
> > most of it is coming from residential ISPs.
> >
> > Spamprobe catches it, but I still need to browse that daily to make sure 
> > there are no false positives.  I would vote for tightening the protections 
> > here.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the problem is that anybody can write to the list. this has
> advantages, but allows spam to come. so just close access to
> registered people?

We don't want a closed list. We've discussed this in the past on 
openfabrics general and openib general.