On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:46, John A. Martin wrote:
I hope this is something where the choice of what to discard rests with the individual list owner/moderator.
The script is just a hack, and must be run by the site admin on the command line. It's just a way to mass discard a ton of crap. It works on file names so it's easy to focus it on a single list.
Elsewhere recently there has been mention of Baysen spam filters or the like for Mailman. Again, to be generally useful, it would, IMHO, be necessary to allow these features to be tailored to the needs of individual lists and to continue to plaice all responsibility firmly with the individual list owner where that is the policy of the Mailman operator.
That's how my Spambayes patch to Mailman works. It hooks into the normal approval process. It'll likely need updating to the latest versions of Spambayes (which recently underwent an interface upheaval). I'd probably be inclined to put this on the feature list for Mailman 2.2.
-Barry