[Yum] list policy changes

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Sep 22 21:28:46 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 07:35 -0700, Saline Erik wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 6:01 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >  I've been on vacation this last couple of weeks and I've noticed
> > something:
> >
> >  this mailing list gets 20-50 spam messages a day that get caught by
> > mailman b/c the messages are not from subscribers. It's good they get
> > caught but I still get notices about them, etc, etc.
> >
> > So I'm thinking that I'll just make the default mechanism be  
> > discard. So
> > that if a message is posted to this list by a person who is not a
> > subscriber then the message will be silently dropped.
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> > -sv
> 
> I really can't say I say a lot of spam from the Yum list, but I would  
> agree to drop non subscriber email posts.
> 

Right, you don't b/c it gets stopped by the non-subscriber hold of
messages. But I see them and it sucks up my time.

-sv





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