+ Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > * On the subject of "Re: AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE" | > * Sent on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:24:02 +0200 | > * Honorable Gerardo Sarria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Isn't there a way to filter messages like this? | > Because lately I got minimum one each day. It seems like some idiot | > discover this list and he use it to send trash. | | I read this list on gmane.org and I do not see any spam. | <http://gmane.org/filter.php>
Indeed, it is getting out of hand, and if nothing is done at the list level, we will each have to start filtering the list or else just grit our teeth and bear it. At the risk of stating the obvious, there are several strategies open: 0. Making the list moderated. (But who wants to be the moderator?) But I enjoy the immediacy of the unmoderated list. Often, we can get answers to our questions faster than a moderator could approve our posts. 1. Make the list semi-closed to non-subscribers, bouncing any submissions from non-subscribers to a moderator for approval. Personally, I dislike this option because I am subscribed with a different address than my usual one, for the purpose of easy mail sorting at my end. 2. Running submissions through an extra challenge/response round. One example of this policy is the "qsecretary" on Dan Bernstein's qmail list. For every incoming message, it computes a cryptographic hash of the message, then sends a message to the sender instructing him/her to respond to a certain address with the hash. When the expected response arrives, the message is automatically posted. I think this is a good system, though I admit it's a bit annoying. 3. Apply a spam filter (perhaps a Bayesian one) to the incoming submissions, passing the suspect ones to a moderator. 4. Others? I think I would favour option 2 myself, but it is probably too much work to set it up. Option 3 should be fairly easy to implement. (Is there a CL based Bayesian spam filter freely available? I use spambayes for my own mail.) - Harald
