From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T03:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Spam at ruby-talk

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:37:54AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> My guess would be that the other lists are not open to anyone; in my 
> experience SpamAssassin isn't going to be perfect, and some spam will 
> inevitably get through.

AFAIK they are not any less open than ruby-talk.  In particular at the 
OpenOffice mailing list we frequently (read "daily") get emails from 
people who are not subscribed and don't even know how a mailing list is 
different from a help hotline.

> I'll upgrade SA the next time I'm on that box, but I wouldn't get your 
> hopes up :)

Thanks.  We'll see what happens.  The thing about SA versions is only a 
guess of course.


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