On Friday 17 October 2003 4:13 am, klaus imgrund wrote: >On Friday 17 October 2003 06:32, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:58 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> >Sidney Brooks wrote: >> >> If the former, at >> >> what will it have to conceded that the spammers have >> >> made this user organization useless? >> > >> >You are not being singled out. Neither has this >> >rendered the list useless. Check the list archives >> >for various solutions to the problem: >> >> While it hasn't made the list useless, it is indeed a major pain in the >> ass that's fairly recent. I've been on this list about a year and haven't >> had this bad a problem before. >> >> It's a nasty problem that shouldn't be minimized. Many users won't (or > >can't) > >> take "heroic" steps (spamassassin,mailfilter,etc) but will abandon the >> list as a resource instead. > >Nothing heroic about installing spamassassin.If I can do it nobody else > should have a problem with it. > >Klaus
I agree that it's not that difficult. Perhaps "heroic" was a bad choice of words, but I'll still wager that a significant percentage of newbies won't take the time to set up an aggressive anti-spam system, but will migrate away from this (and other) listservs if this isn't somehow brought under control. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
