[Moin-user] List spamminess (was Re: Do we like the same books?)

[George Dinwiddie]

Mailman has a setting, "By default, should new list member postings be
moderated?" that can be used to fight spam.  It's under "Privacy Options"
| "Sender Filters".  Using this, and requiring a subscription to post, can
greatly reduce the spam.  It does, however, increase the workload of the
moderator.

 - George

On Thu, September 27, 2007 15:09, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
>     Nigel> This list seems to have an abnormally high level of spam for a
>     Nigel> technical list ....
>
>     Nigel> Can the list settings be tweaked to reduce this spam level -
>     Nigel> member posting only or similar?
>
> SourceForge uses Mailman to manage its mailing lists.  In theory posting
> could be restricted to subscribers.  Anything beyond that (say, running a
> spam filter in front of the list as the lists at python.org do) would be
> possible, but a bit more work.
>
> I never see any of this spam.  My mail goes through gmail.com which seems
> to
> catch most stuff.  Anything it doesn't catch SpamBayes running on my
> computer does.
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/
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