>From what I've seeen (I've been on this list long enough to have seen several discussions about the ever-increasing amounts of spam getting on to the mailing list)...it seems that the list admins wish to keep the list "open" so that as people wishing to post without joining, can. There are many of us who would like to see the list close up a bit. I think a good solution to this would be to install a good spam filter, such as SpamAssassin (www.spamassassin.org) on the list server. It would dump the spam message into a bit bucket before they reached the list, which could therefore remain "open" while still getting rid of the p0rn and other unwelcome solicitiations. I run two Mailman lists on one of my servers and have installed this utility on it. It's very configurable and so far seems to be pretty well "on-point" in distinguishing spam from valid messages.
My $0.02 worth. -- Bob -- On 5 Apr 2002, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 13:47, Harald Welte wrote: > > The only thing I can offer is to make allow list-posting to > > subscribers only. > > Yes, please, please do that. > > A possible solution could be: > - non-member sends mail > - list requests confirmation (like for a new subscription) > - mail is forwarded to list & user is autosubscribed as a 'silent' > user. > > Dunno if the software for that exists, though. > > -- vbi -- ________________________________________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett
