[Adium-devl] Spam on this list

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 5/3/09 3:38 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.

On the jabber.org lists I just force people to subscribe in order to
post. Some spammers subscribe, post, and unsubscribe. Modding the first
post could solve that, too, but introduces more work for the admins.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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