list spam

[Oliver Fromme]

Robert Watson wrote:
 > On Sun, 9 Mar 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 do this on other lists for freebsd.org.  However, we need to have mailman 
 > > be a little smarter about it.  Right now, it holds the messages for 
 > > moderation.  Instead, it needs to immediately bounce the email with 
 > > instructions about what to do.  Otherwise we have the situation where 
 > > somebody emails and gets i the queue, then sends with the right address and 
 > > it goes through. Later on, the message is approved and we get a duplicate on 
 > > the list.
 > 
 > If we're going to go that route, what I'd like to see is a message-free 
 > freebsd-posters list I can join once using a posting address that is then 
 > authorized to post to any list.

Yes, please.  I'm not subsribed to the lists because I'm
reading them through a one-way NNTP gateway ( and I guess
I'm not the only one).  I certainly wouldn't want to manage
several dozens subscriptions just to be able to post to the
lists.

Best regards
   Oliver

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