[Adium-devl] Spam on this list

[Chris Forsythe]

On May 3, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> 2009/5/3 Graham Booker <gbooker at cod3r.com>:
>> I've noticed a fair amount of spam on this mailing list lately,  
>> with a lot
>> more caught in the local spam filter.  Is it possible to do some  
>> tighter
>> moderation on this list?  One setting that we have with the Perian  
>> list
>> (using google groups), which has worked quite well, is to have new  
>> users'
>> messages moderated by the admin.  If the person is not a spammer,  
>> we approve
>> the message and mark the user as allowed to post messages without
>> moderation.  It eliminates the spammers entirely, with minimal  
>> effort on our
>> part.  Can such a setting be used here?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> - Graham
>
> Mailman is a huge pain in the ass. It's about 2 decades old and
> difficult to manage. That being said: yes, there is a moderator queue,
> but I'm not sure how often it will be checked.
>
> SpamAssassin is set to a pretty low tolerance level; I'm not sure what
> else to do.

The google groups moderation sends an email to all owners, and anyone  
can approve the email. Does mailman operate in a different way?