On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:11:32PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > > I know I'm not the only one getting sick of the moron spammers > flooding this mailing list. There's so much garbage from so many > idiots that it's a struggle to filter them out effectively. > > So, I've spoken to the listmaster team about making this list > "moderated" rather than "open". What does that mean? Mails from > subscribers would go through to the list; mails from non-subscribers > would be held back for moderation by humans. We'd need some > responsible people to act as moderators, and I volunteer to help > here. Carsten also volunteered on IRC, and I'm thinking a third person > would be enough to give us good coverage. > > We don't have *very* much genuine traffic on the list - a quick skim > through the archives from the last few months shows the following > *rough* count: > > ham spam > September 2019 48 27 > October 2019 62 19 > November 2019 75 17 > December 2019 (so far) 33 23 > > What do you think? Is this the right thing to do? >
Given the low signal-to-noise ratio, your suggestion definitely seems like the right thing to do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
