On Jan 04, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Barry Warsaw writes:
On Dec 28, 2011, at 02:11 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
Does Mailman support confirmation for messages with high SPAM ratio?
Not out of the box, no.
But it would be trivial to implement efficiently, I think, even in MM2, as long as there is a front-end (eg, spamassassin) that does the spam-checking efficiently.
Right. If the front-end added some header containing a pattern that could be parsed for spamminess, it would be nearly trivial to write a handler that could make that determination and hold/discard/reject such a message. Skip (IIRC) and I once had a moderately-well working spambayes plugin for Mailman.
I don't know if Python lists ever have that kind of problem, though.
I don't think we have much of a spam problem on the lists these days. It used to be python-list got most of its spam through the Usenet gateway. Probably in another year or so all of the terms "Usenet", "spam", and "email" will produce a reaction in our young intarweb users much like the terms "vinyl records" and "land-line" do today. There's no problem that doesn't disappear if you ignore it long enough <wink>.
There could be some integration points with Mailman here, but it's not clear they are worth it,
For mailman-developers, I think it's preferable to teach people to fish (here, write and install simple Handlers), and provide a contrib page on the wiki for posting them.
Like all open source, contributions are welcome. :) -Barry