[jcifs] Toward better SPAM cleanup...

[Tim Potter]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:10:31PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> > > I'm looking for a way to ban our most recent (and most frequent) villian
> > > entirely, and I know that Tim Potter--who runs the lists on samba.org--has
> > > asked for an enhancement to the mailing list software that would allow
> > > admins to easily remove SPAM from the archives.  That would be nice, as
> > > some of the SPAM has been decidedly ugly.
> > 
> > Speaking of the archives, how come it won't allow downloads of the whole .mbox
> > anymore (gives a 403 forbidden)?  Did it just get too big?
> 
> I have no idea.  I'll ask.

We don't allow people to download the web archives as too many badly
behaved web spiders try to suck them all down chewing up all our
bandwidth.  If you really have a need for them I can let you have them
but otherwise you can search them using google (site:lists.samba.org).


Tim.