[ILUG] ILUG AGM 2006

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:48:48 +0000
  | From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
  | 
  | On Tue, 07 Nov 2006, Colm Buckley wrote:
  | > As a matter of interest, has there been much spam getting through
  | > since I altered the rules a couple of weeks ago?
  | 
  | Very little.  [ ... ]
  | It's possible that the problem is fixed well enough that it's
  | not necessary right now.
  | 
  | Without adding extra work to you Colm, it would be interesting
  | to have a way to monitor this in detail.  [ ... ]
  | how [ much spam gets ] through would be interesting (though
  | phresumably that requires human intervention).
  | This was one piece of info which was missing from the debate.

 given that no-one who was there seems to remember
 precisely what was voted on, I am not surprised the
 numbers that were posted to this list in early Oct
 (before Colm's recent change) also seem to have been
 forgotten.  I posted some numbers:

   http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2006-October/090160.html

 and so did others in that same(?) thread.

 I haven't recrunched since Colm's change so have no
 update to those values, but a quick eyeballing of the
 incoming spam from ILUG since 18-Oct (the day after
 Colm's change) is c.15 (less than one a day, albeit
 there was a cluster of c.5 in a row early this month).

 admittedly, numbers generated on the ILUG server would
 be better, but: if you could count forwarded spam on
 the server, then surely you would not be forwarding it
 in the first place?

 however, you should be able to count non-subscriber
 posts.  such posts need not be spam, and not all spam
 need be non-subscriber (but, I'd guess, nominally is).
 a count of both subscriber posts, and non-subscriber
 posts, both pre- and post-blocking (in both cases),
 could be illuminating.

vastly amused people cannot remember what they agreed on,
cheers!
	-blf-
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