Interesting. That wouldn't be too hard to write up... For my purposes I just toss anything that gets held and I like that setup, but I can see your point.
Still the real solution here is to stop spam from entering your site period. You should look at using the RBL and a few other anti-spaming tools. These are all part of your MTA. And really that is where anti-spam measure really should be taken... Jon Carnes (just one man's opinion...) ----- Original Message ----- From: "WJCarpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:23 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts > [[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? > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 > 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
