[ On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 13:18:23 (-0500), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: 
]
> Subject: Re: hi
>
> Our respective tolerance levels are irrelevant to the issue at hand.
> Spam filtering is the responsibility of the recipient, not an
> intermediary like the Amanda listserv.

I beg to differ.  List servers should be no more tolerant of accepting
e-mail from known abusers, dial-up/DSL/cable addresses, or known open
relays, etc. than any other decent mail server.

> The Amanda mailing list should continue to remain open to
> non-subscribers.

No, I don't think so.  All postings to un-moderated lists like this
should be only from validated subscribers.  Interested users can
subscribe just long enough to discuss their issues if they don't want to
remain subscribed.

Bug reports from non-subscribers should go to a separate (hopefully
low-traffic) list that only select developers and other highly
interested parties need to subscribe to, and which could be filtered
through something like bogofilter or spamassassin prior to
redistribution (or they could even go direct to an e-mail based trouble
ticketing system like GNATS that would in effect auto-moderate by
classifying reports).

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