On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:12:08PM -0400, Steve Werby wrote:
> "Michael Widenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This thing has been up a couple of times over the years. The problem
> > is that requiring people to be subscribers to the mailing list before
> > posting will only confuse the poor people that don't expect to get 100
> > emails per day after subscribing.
>
> In that case, you may want to consider implementing a MLM (mailing list
> manager) that allows subscribers to disable mail delivery. I know Mailman
> and some others have that feature. What MLM is MySQL using? In conjunction
> with that feature you could have an autoreply that gives non-subscribers who
> attempt to post a canned message with info. on the lists and instructions on
> subscribing.
I can highly recommend ezlm, as used by all the perl.org mailing lists
(including the >5000 subscribers on dbi-announce). It's very powerful
and simple. Supports digests and post-only subscriptions. Easy
moderation for moderated lists etc etc. Canned message with info for
non-subscribers. Excellent bounce management etc etc.
> > (Sasha, would it be easy to fix the last thing).
> > - Add better spam filters; Matt, do you have any ideas for this?
>
> Yesterday in this thread I mentioned Spam Bouncer
> <http://www.spambouncer.org/>. It's a set of procmail recipes that are
> pretty powerful, easy to modify and are pretty effective. I especially like
> the ability to automatically notify senders of false positives and provide
> them a password to resend the message and bypass the filtering system (which
> conceptually a spammer wouldn't do).
That would be handy, given that mysql lists current spam filter just
bounced a message from me due to the "just <dollar symbol>" in
"just <dollar symbol>sth->execute"!
Tim.
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