On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, WJCarpenter wrote: > [[This is so irritating (after a while) that I can't believe it's not > a more popular gripe. Feel free to rub my nose in the obvious > solution.]] > > I help run a very low volume mailing list. Most days, there are no > postings. Sometimes weeks can go by with no postings. Every day, > though, we get lots of spam. On weekends, it's at least a couple > dozen a day. All of this spam gets trapped by the "members only" list > option. > > So far, so good. > > It's sort of tedious to go through the web interface to clear out > 50-100 spams. Click, scroll, click, scroll, ... fall asleep, click, > scroll, .... > > I wish one of these things were available: > > 1. A configuration setting that would automatically "reject" > non-member postings, just as if I had gone through the web interface > and selected "reject" for each message. (We don't want to > automatically "discard" non-member posts because we do get the > occasional legit non-member posting. That's the same reason we don't > run a spam filter that silently discards traffic.) > > -or- > > 2. A configuration setting that would automatically mark non-member > postings as "reject" instead of "defer" in the web interface. That > way, we'd just have to do one submit to clear out the crap and then > could easily see if there was something interesting in the queue. > > So, is there anything like either of those in some place I haven't > looked?
Both issues sound to me as if you would like to run a MTA in front off Mailman which protects your lists from all that crap ;-) Split horizon mail services come to my mind when I here this. Heiko ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
