Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henning Makholm: > I find these recurring threads slightly surreal. I think that > lists.d.o does a excellent job of filtering spam; my own (anecdotal, > non-scientific) experience is that I spend more time reading > discussions about how to spamfilter l.d.o better than I spend > ignoring spam o

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Allyn, MarkX A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > for me in my work environment. I find these recurring threads slightly surreal. I think that lists.d.o does a e

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:07:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Hi, Wouter: > > El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: > > [...] > > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi, Wouter: > > El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: > [...] > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > > brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ > > Not exactly. Sp

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Wouter: El Lunes, 05 Septiembre 2005 19:52, Wouter Verhelst escribió: [...] > > "spam", as in, unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular > brand of corned beef. See http://www.spam.com/ Not exactly. Spam, as unsolicited bulk email, was named after a particular Monty Python's Fly

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:42:47PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Matt, > Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > > > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Matt, Am 2005-09-05 15:54:47, schrieb Matthew Garrett: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. > > That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods > Co

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form it's a > clear reference to the food product, and as such is potentially > infringing under various circumstances. I'm quite certain that if you brought out a brand of canned pork under the label "spam" that

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett writes: >> That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods >> Corporation. > > Only when used to sell food (in which case "spam" would also infringe the > mark). No, Hormel only claim the capitalised form. In capitalised form

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods > Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case "spam" would also infringe the mark). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Michelle Konzack] > Are you happy ? Sure, I am happy. :) > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... I > think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. I will? I do not know if gmane uses the debian spamfilters, but it seem to do quite a good job filtering out spam. :) I

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the SPAM-Filter of Debian fails, you will shot yourself... > I think, the filter trash around 99% of the SPAM. That should be "spam" - "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-09-01 20:20:39, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Allyn, MarkX A] > > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > > for me in my work environment. > > The debian lists are not doing a great job in

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-04 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 18:56 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >And it needs money for a new dual Opteron mail server: > > http://gmane.org/donate.php> > > Please refrain from raising funds for other projects on Debian mailing > lists. Donations solicited here should go to Debian, not somewhere > else.

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:45:07 +0200, Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You might want to consider reading the lists using NNTP to gmane.org. >> I read several of the lists that way, and gmane filter out the spam >> for me. :) > >And it ne

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-02 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-02 10:20]: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > > What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be > > possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script > > which can be executed and calls the spam-repo

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that being too restrictive on spam also means getting > more false positives. Therefore one must find out how much more restrictive one can be without getting too restrictive. :D -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: >> What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be >> possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script >> which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Josh Metzler
On Thursday 01 September 2005 06:42 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > > I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are > > spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package > > name, version, etc) is no

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: > What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be > possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script > which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl script > just like sa-learn or something like this? > So it w

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > I have also noticed tickets submitted to the bug facility that are > spam. Can that facility be configured so that if the format (package > name, version, etc) is not followed; the bug will not be emailed out > to the lists? That's

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-01 20:42]: > [Allyn, MarkX A] > > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > > for me in my work environment. > > The debian lists are not doing a

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Romain Francoise
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might want to consider reading the lists using NNTP to gmane.org. > I read several of the lists that way, and gmane filter out the spam > for me. :) And it needs money for a new dual Opteron mail server: http://gmane.org/donate.php> --

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Allyn, MarkX A] > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > for me in my work environment. The debian lists are not doing a great job in blocking spam. You might want to consider reading the lists usi

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:11:30AM -0700, Allyn, MarkX A wrote: > Hello: > > I have been noticing (and a bit irritated) at the spam I am seeing > on this and some other email lists. The latest was a bit offensive > for me in my work environment. > Tell me about it. > I am curious; is the email l