Open the list?

[Enrico Zini]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:29:32PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:08:25PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> > Do you think I should open it for everybody without need of approval?
> There's too much spam these days to do that.  However, that also means that
> you'll have quite a lot of work moderating once they have all found the
> address.  Unless there is a good spam filter which discards the spam before
> sending "this message requires moderation".  Is there?

Not on Alioth, not yet.

Unfortunately, the other Alioth lists that I maintain are receiving
quite a bit of spam, and I had to close them down.  I get a notification
mail from Mailman when a message is held for moderation, and I usually
just delete notification mails for spam and whitelist the senders of all
non-spam.  After a week in which whitelisting might happen a bit often
(for example, I subscribe as enrico at debian.org but I often write as
enrico at enricozini.org, so I myself need whitelisting), things tend to
stabilise and it's quite rare to have to log into mailman to whitelist
someone.  When that happens, I take advantage of the situation to flush
all the held spam away.

That's what I do.  It's probably not perfect, and this is a good
opportunity to see if someone came up with a better process.


Ciao,

Enrico

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