From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-06-07T02:56:53+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet


From: "Aaron Turner" <synfinatic@gmail.com>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Bill Kelly<billk@cts.com> wrote:
> > This is starting to sound partly like a gmail problem.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow.  How is it gmail's fault that it is possible
> for spammers to use the ruby-talk list?  I just looked through the
> first 500 messages in my spam folder and there wasn't a single spam
> from any other list.  All the other lists who don't want to require
> people to subscribe before posting force their posts to go through a
> moderator queue.

Sorry, I think I was in a snarky mood last night.

I'm hardly seeing any ruby-talk spam here.

(Thus it seemed plausible there was some room for
improvement in gmail's spam filtering.  However, in
retrospect, I think my suggestion was probably
unhelpful. :)


Regards,

Bill