Re: VGER does gradual SPF activation (FAQ matter)

[Nikita Danilov]

David Miller writes:
 > From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 > 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).

Nikita. (see? I do.)
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