On Wed, Oct 6, 2021, at 13:57, Aaron Meurer wrote:
Coming back to earth on the original discussion, is there really no way to moderate new users on the mailing list platform used by this list (mailman?)? On the SymPy list, which uses Google Groups, we moderate all new users, so that first time posts have to be moderated but after that people can post directly. We have had very minimal spam even in the queue (to be fair, I'm sure Google applies its own filtering), and only one in recent memory that got through, due to the moderators not reading the message contents carefully enough.
For scikit-image we have to pre-approve all new posters and subscribers. The posts are fine, but vetting subscribers is a pain because you can't just Google every email to find out if it is legit. The spammers are getting smarter; one of them recently used `kern` in their name to get around our moderation :) We've updated discuss.scientific-python.org to allow "Mailing list mode", which should simulate what Matti and Chuck want (i.e., receiving emails for each post, and being able to reply). You can enable it under your user profile if you want to try it out. Stéfan