Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:32:16 +0400 | Subject | Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter) |
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David Miller writes: > From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> > Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:54:57 -0400 > > > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 18:02 +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > Hmmm. > > > What about using spamhaus.org sbl+xbl list? > > > I used to receive 1200 spam messages a day, with spamhaus only half of > > > that. > > > > What about doing nothing? The percentage of spam on LKML is vanishingly > > small. > > We definitely need a better spam solution at vger, the reason is that > the current mechanism (ad-hoc by-hand regexp blocking) creates lots of > problems. For one thing, it means that people with names in languages > other than english get blocked when their emails are quoted in > postings. This is because we don't understand a lot of languages, so > we just regexp block multibyte characters typically assosciated with > that language in order to block spam written in that language. > > That isn't acceptable in the long term.
Why? So far people managed to transcribe their names into English alphabet without much trouble (and ado).
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