list spam

[Mike Lempriere]

That's all that I could ask -- I'll shut up now.

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008, Peter Wemm wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mike Lempriere <mike at vintners.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating
>>>  this list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post?
>>>       
>> I for one would like this too.
>>
>> On one hand, it is inconvenient for people with multiple email
>> addresses, but there is an easy way around that.  What you do is
>> subscribe twice, and go to the options page and turn off email for one
>> of them.  That way you can (for example) email with your normal
>> address and receive email from the list on unique addresses for
>> sorting or whatever.
>>     
>
> We host several Mailman mailing lists, and have very few problems with spam
> getting through to the lists, nor are there huge numbers of messages
> forwarded to the moderators for approval.
>
> Our lists are generally not moderated (other than an announcement list
> which isn't open for discussions), but only list members can post to the
> lists.  Non-member postings are forwarded for approval, and the moderator
> may add non-subscribed address to a list of acceptable posters.
>
> We are using spamassassin with Mailman, and anything that exceeds the SA
> score is forwarded to the moderator for approval.  This is the largest
> source of moderator requests.
>
> Bill
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