Re: [Usability]Recent spam increase

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> 
> Is it just me or has the amount of spam being submitted to this list
> gone up a lot in recent weeks Yes, it's just a small part of the daily
> spam dose I receive, but I was wondering if there were any thoughts on
> how to help stop the problem before it escalates to truly annoying
> levels.
> 

The older a list is, the more spam it gets... never goes down.

The only way to get rid of it really is to moderate the list for
people who aren't subscribed.  Most of the gnome.org lists require
approval for nonsubscriber posts for this reason.

Havoc