[Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

[Oleg D.]

>This is the best email I have yet to find describing how mail.python.org 
>proactive kills spam:
>
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html
>
>I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not be 
>implicit in the above description) to combat spam:
>
>* Don't allow email from non-subscribers
>* Moderate email from new subscribers some period of time (probably a day 
>to a week)
>
>Does mail.python.org do either or these things and/or is this generally a 
>good practice?
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>-Matt 
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Good practice is to filter spam with MTA. Not with mailman even.

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Oleg D.

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