Hi Oliver Fromme! 

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:33:37 +0100 (CET); Oliver Fromme wrote about 'Re: list 
spam':

>>>> I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating 
>>>> this 
>>>> list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post?
>>> 
>>> I for one would like this too.
>>> 
>>> On one hand, it is inconvenient for people with multiple email addresses, 
>>> but there is an easy way around that.  What you do is subscribe twice, and 
>>> go to the options page and turn off email for one of them.  That way you 
>>> can 
>>> (for example) email with your normal address and receive email from the 
>>> list 
>>> on unique addresses for sorting or whatever.
>>> 
>>> We do this on other lists for freebsd.org.  However, we need to have 
>>> mailman 
>>> be a little smarter about it.  Right now, it holds the messages for 
>>> moderation.  Instead, it needs to immediately bounce the email with 
>>> instructions about what to do.  Otherwise we have the situation where 
>>> somebody emails and gets i the queue, then sends with the right address and 
>>> it goes through. Later on, the message is approved and we get a duplicate 
>>> on 
>>> the list.
>> 
>> If we're going to go that route, what I'd like to see is a message-free 
>> freebsd-posters list I can join once using a posting address that is then 
>> authorized to post to any list.
> Yes, please.  I'm not subsribed to the lists because I'm
> reading them through a one-way NNTP gateway ( and I guess
> I'm not the only one).  I certainly wouldn't want to manage
> several dozens subscriptions just to be able to post to the
> lists.

Yes, me too, but I'm using two-way NNTP-server - gmane.org. Please keep it
allowing to still post.

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