On 11 Mar 2006, at 01:50, Karl Berry wrote:
Thanks for the answer.
RMS wants GNU lists to be open to non-subscribers, I think,
You are most definitely right, but this does not imply that mail from
anywhere has to be passed on. My original message implied that people
would have to subscribe to post, I see now, which I didn't intend.
Sorry about that.
Anyway, mailman has a simple and effective way to handle it, namely to
hold requests from nonsubscribers. A human can then approve the real
messages.
This is a poor solution, as it causes delays. I have encountered a
couple of such lists. And one cannot sign up on all lists.
A good spam filter, the way I suggested, is better (see below).
That's where the moderation comes in. Would you have any
time to help?
No, I have no attachment to this list, except as a end-user. I just
replied because I happen to have this idea. :-)
It amounts to a couple of minutes a day.
And a problem with your moderation method is that it requires more or
less permanent watching of the list. By contrast, I check the spam I
get only every couple of months.
We are already doing this now for dozens of lists. The work
involved is
minimal, since we have a background system that autodeletes most of
the
spam (and there are checks for real messages being wrongly
identified as
spam, etc.).
The thing that makes spam truly annoying is if one has to spend time
on it frequently, like you say, a couple of minutes every day. With
my system, I spend less than ten minutes every couple of months.
Hans Aberg
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