Open the list?

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:08:03AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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.
...
> 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.

I maintain a list on gnu.org, which doesn't have enough spam filtering, and
someone came up with a very nice method:

The list is marked subscriber-only.  A bot is registered as a moderator, so he
gets all the held-for-moderation messages.  Most of them are held because the
poster is not a member, and most of them are spam.  The bot runs a spam-filter
on the messages and sends a discard message to the list if it is spam.

The result is that I only have to look at the moderations when I get "<num>
messages held for moderation" reminders, and that doesn't happen a lot.

Of course this does introduce a slight delay (I only react to reminders), but
since the messages are rare anyway this isn't a problem.  It would be nicer to
have the spam filter built in, though, so I would just get moderation
notifications for messages which are likely not spam (or I could just switch
off moderation completely).

Thanks,
Bas

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