[AC web] update spam policy

APPROVE COMMIT web Index: Lists/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Lists/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -r1.27 ChangeLog --- Lists/ChangeLog 15 Feb 2005 09:13:53 -0000 1.27 +++ Lists/ChangeLog 7 Oct 2005 14:08:27 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,6 ＠＠ +2005-10-07 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * index.content: Update call for information on AOL attitude + improvements, add minor utf8-obfoo and iso8859-obfoo to hold list + in #spam. + Index: Lists/index.content =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Lists/index.content,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -r1.27 index.content --- Lists/index.content 15 Feb 2005 09:13:53 -0000 1.27 +++ Lists/index.content 7 Oct 2005 14:08:28 -0000 ＠＠ -448,7 +448,7 ＠＠ If your ISP is unwilling to provide resources to ensure that mail you have requested is delivered to you, XEmacs volunteers are not going to make up for that lack. <strong>Note:</strong> It is now - over a year since the above was written; if AOL's service has + over two years since the above was written; if AOL's service has improved, we'd like to know at <a href="mailto:list-manager＠xemacs.org">list-manager＠xemacs.org</a>)</p> ＠＠ -485,7 +485,7 ＠＠ Due to a dramatic increase in the amount of spam and a near perfect record of like 0.05% false positives, we are discarding near-certain spam without checking as of 2004-04-27. We have - added more categories as recently as 2005-02-15. Here are the + added more categories as recently as 2005-10-07. Here are the criteria, any of which qualifies your post for automatic discard: </p> ＠＠ -501,8 +501,12 ＠＠ <li>Convince SpamAssassin your post is spam (5 points, vanilla config)</li> <li>Send mail to majordomo＠xemacs (we're a Mailman site now)</li> <li> - Use implicit addresses (ie, not addressed to the list) or too - many addresses (over 10). + Use implicit addresses (ie, not addressed to the list). Either + the <strong>To</strong> header or the <strong>Cc</strong> header + <em>must</em> contain "xemacs.org". + </li> + <li> + Use too many addresses (over 10). </li> <li> Include any of several drug names in the headers, including ＠＠ -595,6 +599,11 ＠＠ phrases associated with the so-called <em>Nigerian scam</em> or containing <em>the seven words you cannot say on TV</em> (<em>i.e.</em>, your post looks like spam for a porn site or Viagra). + </li> + <li> + <strong>From</strong>, <strong>To</strong>, <strong>Cc</strong>, + or <strong>Subject</strong> containing entirely QP- or + BASE64-encoded text with a charset of ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. </li> </ol> -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.