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Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Who runs the XFS mailing list admin-wise?

A cabal...

> Could we add some basic anti-spam measures, I am not subscribed to many 
> mailing lists but this one seems to generate the most spam.
> 
> Any chance they'd consider switching from Sendmail -> Postfix?
> 
> Justin.
> 
> 

There are actually many spam measures in place... spamassassin, and 
others, but it seems they just can't keep up.

The one spam measure that's not in place is subscriber-only posting.

I think it may be time to revisit that decision.  It's gotten really bad 
lately.

-Eric