Re: Egad, what a lot of spammage

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> Actually, it wasn't that bad. Only four messages were of that type, 
> while about 90 were the usual viagra/stopsmoking/makemoneynow variety. 

90?  Wow.  pgsql-hackers and the other lists I moderate certainly do not
get that sort of traffic.  As moderator I did not see any of the
pseudo-Christian type Tom is complaining about (I did get about a dozen
of them as a subscriber of course).

> I'd love to see those dropped unceremoniously before even making 
> it to the queue, as the great majority of them are not 'tricky' and 
> should be picked up by any spam filtering software. I used to be in 
> the camp of leaning towards lenience just so we don't accidentally 
> throw out a legitimate message from a non-subscriber, but at this 
> point, I don't think it is worth the extra hassle. More importantly, 
> the sheer volume of things to moderate probably means that it is 
> more likely that a moderation error will cause a real message to be 
> dropped than a stricter spam filter.

Actually, I have received several complaints from people whose messages
are lost in the void.  It's annoying because there's no way to figure
out why they were discarded.  So I vote against making the rules stronger.

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