I recently subscribed to this list, because of some issues I was having... (figured it out without have to post I think)...
But I would like to interject my $0.02 in this... I am subscribed to a TON of lists, all of them require you to subscribe in order to post. This is generally considered a core feature of lists. One notable exception is the cvshome.org lists, and I am no longer subscribed to those. I am sorry, but "Have hot sex tonight" and "Viagra overnight" are just unacceptable and diminish the quality of a community. If the list manager program can not place the simple requirement of a subscription in order to post, then it needs to be thrown out and a new one put in place. And no I should not be required to place a bazillion filters in my email program in order to not get this cruft. just my $0.02 Justin On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 17:59, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hi! > > [Sorry for offtopic, but since Christoph wants to discuss this in the > list, I don't want readers to see only his replies, but not mine] > > > proski> Install a spam filter. I use SpamAssassin. You can download it from > > proski> http://spamassassin.org/ > > > > Not everybody has the possibility to install a filter (i am not the system > > administrator) > > SpamAssassin can be installed with user permissions and used from > procmail. Read the documentation. > > My configuration: fetchcmail gets mail and uses procmail as MDA (mail > delivery agent). procmail sorts some mailing lists first - I don't want > it to remove spam from the lists I administer, because this would hide my > failures. It also passes e-mail from known people - if a spammer > impersonates them or they get a virus, I want to know that. > > Then SpamAssassin checks for spam. The spam goes to a separate folder for > review and reporting to spamcop.net. Then my (old, pre-SA) filters are > used. It's useful to separate HTML e-mail and e-mail with no subject from > mailing lists - such posts are usually clueless and don't deserve to be > archived, not to mention MS Word attachments. Finally, the messages are > put to the mailing list folders, and the remainder goes to the inbox. > > > IMO it would help a lot, if only people were allowed to send messages to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], who subscribed to the list. No full time administrator > > is needed, in fact it would be easy to implement. > > It's already implemented in Mailman, it's just turned off. However, it > would be wrong to reject such messages withot review, and that takes time. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,/^^^^\, / \\. /| /| /''\___/ /''\__/ |/ /''\__/ |/ \\ ./ `\..../ http://www.openaether.org
