>Ken, I got mailman-discard from SourceForge, and modified it a lot. It >discards the spam in bulk: > > mailman-discard --base http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/admin nmh-workers
Hm. I looked at this script, and I guess it requires a program called "curl", which I don't have. I don't think I really care enough about this to bother compiling and installing it, especially when it won't solve my main problem ... spam in my inbox (it just solves the problem of dealing with the list moderation). >Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I recommend "discard". Spammers are known to use originating addresses >> of regular people, so you can potentially be the cause of receiving >> more spam due to mis-directed bounces. > >Unfortunately, this is worse because legitimate posters don't get a >notification that their message didn't get through. Right, that's my reason for not doing that. I get the feeling that the vast majority of spam to the list is using made up addresses ... and since the previous list policy was "hold", which AFAIK generates an email to non-list members, we're not making things worse. >Josh Bressers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'll do it, that policy is insane. > >Hardly. Most mailing lists are administered that way for good reason. >You might have just earned yourself a thankless, onerous, task with >that rude response. Tell me about it. I've administered a number of mailing lists over the years ... it wasn't so bad before spam ramped up, but now it's just draining. To be honest, I would have done this months ago but when I last looked I couldn't find the right knob in mailman to change that. Only recently did I discover how to make mailman do this. Josh, although you don't deserve it I'll give you another chance to rethink your request. If you really want to administrate the mailing list, contact me privately and I'll switch everything over to you. One warning: I WON'T take it back once I've given it up. This includes moderation of nmh-commits as well; you have to take both or neither of them (nmh-commits doesn't get nearly as much traffic, though). --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
