This list is active, as far as I know. RMS wants GNU lists to be open
to non-subscribers, I think, to facilitate communication, but the
downside is the spam.
I do not get much spam from the list, though, because of a very good
local spam filter.
One idea that comes to my mind, by which one can maximize openness,
and minimize spam disturbance, without risking that essential mail is
being deleted by the spam filter, is to hook up a spam filter to the
archive, and make it a default to hide away from the reader mail
labeled by it as spam. A moderator might then edit this further by
hand. The reader of the the archive would by default not see the spam
marked mail, but could do that by deactivating the spam filter
markings, be it the automatic or those made by hand. A similar rule
might apply to the mail sent out from the list.
The way I handle spam coming to me, is that the spam-marked email is
sorted on my server into a special spam mailbox. Then, from time to
time, I activate a special imap account, by which I can see all the
mail titles, without actually downloading the whole messages to my
computer. By inspecting the titles, it is easy to quickly see what is
spam. I recently checked some one thousand of these mails, which took
me about ten minutes, and of which none were legal email. It is then
easy to mark all email and delete it in one go, and then deactivate
the imap account. This way, I am not bothered much by the spam, as I
choose when I want to see it. In the past, I have deleted more than
15 thousand, and think that less than five were legal email. Some
spam slips through the filter from the flex list; the phishing ones,
I report to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
On 10 Mar 2006, at 20:23, Karl Berry wrote:
Greetings,
It appears that this mailing list, [email protected], (among many
others),
has no known owner/moderator, and accepts mail from non-subscribers.
The result is passing through of lots of spam.
So we need to do something. I'm writing to get input on the best
thing
to do. Please reply to me if you have any thoughts on the following:
(1) If this list is obsolete and should be deleted. We'd keep the
archives, just make the address inactive, so any future mail to it
would bounce.
(2) If the list is *not* obsolete, and should remain as a live
address.
In many cases there is so much junk in the archives that it is
hard
to tell, hence my query. In other cases, I could guess, but I
felt
it would be best to just inquire about everything.
In case (2), if you can volunteer to help moderate the list (and/or
others!), that would be most appreciated. But even if not, I'd still
like to know if the list is still live; I'm recruiting volunteer
moderators to help with the job.
Any other information or suggestions is welcome too. For example, if
someone is already administering the list but just isn't listed in the
mailman interface.
Thanks much,
Karl
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