At some point in the past someone had their attribution stripped:
The haskell mailing list is getting an increasing amount of spam, viruses, and virus warnings. Would it be possible to change the list policy to only allow submissions from subscribed members? Please?
Ralf Hinze <ralf@informatik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
I'd like to second this. The amount of spam etc is becoming more and more annoying ...
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:
Thirded! While we won't easily get rid of Outlook-viruses (since the list may appear in people's address books), at least we can get rid of the loads of warnings from misconfigured mail servers following them.
Fourthed. I get 15+Kmsgs/day that are semi-legitimate and every last piece of spam that shows up as an individual thread slows me down by quite a bit, for bulk thread-nuking is the only way I get through any significant fraction of the stuff at all. Cheers, Bill