[Zope.Com Geeks] Re: [Zope-dev] zope-dev list policies

Andrew Sawyers andrew at zope.com
Thu Jun 24 12:41:14 EDT 2004


Ken Manheimer wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
>
>> Ken Manheimer wrote:
>>
>>> What proportion of the list traffic comes from valid members who are 
>>> posting from alternate accounts?
>>
>>
>> A huge percentage was - I don't know how much is making it through to 
>> the lists though.  I'm hearing a lot of complaints from people either 
>> third party, seeing it in IRC or from emails off the lists.
>>
>> I've recently added an increased amount of header and body checks 
>> which were not being applied yesterday as well as increased spam 
>> reject features.  This should help - in any event now that it's being 
>> blocked at the MTA, Mailman's load on the server has went from 2 -3 
>> to ~.5 on the server in the last hour.
>> Andrew
>
>
> Huh?  I was specifically talking about the legitimate postings, "valid 
> members who are posting from alternate accounts", sounds like you're 
> talking about spam.


Yeah, I was.  Misunderstood.  Others will have to answer this for 
themselves.  I've said my peace - so that's enough for me.
Andrew


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