On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:28:18PM +0200, David Heremans wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:53:53PM +0200, Mari van den Broek wrote: > > > Second: Users who aren't on the list can't mail to the list > > > > Why shouldn't people who are not subscribed to the list not be able to send > > messages? > > It is just a suggestion but maybe all those unwanted mails could be > redirected to a 'special mailbox' for Maarten and Wynke so that they > could still approve some mails from not subscribed people.
This could technically be a possibility... but I think this would cause rather long delays (Neither of us are able to be reading and sending on mail 24 hours a day). Also, I don't know how many people actually do send their mail from different addresses than they are subscribed from. I have a feeling that this might be quite a lot. > Combined with something like spamassasin that gives spam-points to mail, > it should be feasable to have real spam score more points (and > autmatically delete it) then the not-so-real spam of not subscribed > persons. This, sadly, is a little bit difficult. I know one machine at stack that spamassassin runs on right now. It works rather well, certainly, but it does not filter out *all* the spam. Moreover, I am quite certain that the mail managers would not be too happy to run SpamAssassin for the mailinglist, as it has been known to crash occasionally, in which case mail can get lost. Stack is encouraging the use of mailman for mailinglists. I will talk to Maarten and the Stack mail people and see if we can and should switch. It would certainly make things a lot easier to configure. Wynke. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
