From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QM4rV-0002Yc-9V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC1C61C063; Mon, 16 May 2011 20:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784A51C063 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 20:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so5059023wyi.40 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=RCe4iWyFXg4rJ8s1MBR9FFGKaYzdURCcRNuPuj5WgEA=; b=UwOW3dh+Un6Orrn8rmhbRhjMFlNDLB9uLsWc5MbVDG7dtcBQAwQN8A5mJj6tgpPncQ lbTf51CYfw1ZDLyfAuR0xDu/NM4F8utwzaToHxZWdnm2Cds+1n7gpDBCI2YEUCL1VNL5 WBpYtjjy9kLkCvbXchzkai7eW2PvORspPt028= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ofsqGRZ8Lz3HgYQhr0dcHLBYINIT660lf8nVhlsWmoPDwlzl3TiPHaFXNftJRg6vtc Kd23+NOOgNhbjRSSxW77MR0i7lCNdV9xvaa/1OY95YGJCb2kgZRvs9ag89TDBHy6qgjN 9mSLRhaAatsXOiVfPwSIwOpGZnaoZ3B4gdujA= Received: by 10.217.6.197 with SMTP id y47mr2715021wes.55.1305579382443; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h11sm3386961wbc.9.2011.05.16.13.56.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading] Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 22:55:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110516162615.GC8525@gaurahari> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105162255.38039.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2da44a7f73bb25a25dc7f177e7d9e6d4 Apparently, though unproven, at 21:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Indi wrote: > > Generally speaking, either messages sent to the list should be > > instantaneously available after hitting "send" OR someone is delaying > > the messages so they can be confirmed On Topic, or at least not spam? > > Never attribute to spam that which can be adequately explained by > mental illness. As one of those poor unfortunate souls having to maintain and admin MailMan, I have one overriding rule with spam: When automated software cannot deal with it anymore, it is time for that MailMan to go away and be replaced. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com