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.
First, spam detection is not Mailman's mission.
A big +1 to that, but I've had problems on the XEmacs lists with marginally spammy stuff. (Eg, one frequent contributor had a French-castle-guard+some-even-more-awful-Aussie-slang version of spook.el hooked up to Gnus, and he regularly ended up snagged by the "male potency enhancers" filter. But actual spam outnumbered his posts about 99 to 1. :^) So you might want to let some spammy stuff through *to* Mailman, yet still have Mailman hold the spammy-ER stuff among that. I don't know if Python lists ever have that kind of problem, though.
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.