[Distutils] Anti-bacteria treatment

Mark W. Alexander slash at dotnetslash.net
Tue Jan 27 18:52:18 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:04:39AM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> "Mark W. Alexander" <slash at dotnetslash.net> writes:
> 
> > 2) Can this list refuse mail from non-subscribers, like the other ones
> > rejecting the spoofed vir** apparently are, so we stop getting notices
> > from vir** spoofing the distutils list address?
> 
> Personally, I find member-post only lists a pain.  I'd rather delete the
> occasional spam messages (the spam from mailing lists like this is only
> a small fraction of the total spam I get) from mailing lists than to
> manage all the subscriptions.

Ok, I'll cope. I mostly wanted to get Windows washed.

> Spam in the mailing list archives is probably another problem, although
> gmane has a nice solution for that - you can report the message as spam
> and it will vanish from the archives.

So if I realize something I said was really stupid, I can call it "spam"
and have the public display of my stupidity removed? Cool!

mwa
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Mark W. Alexander
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