On Sat 04/14/07 at 19:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, gns wrote: > > > >> Posting -> Allow for members only > >> Non-member postings -> Should either get rejected or should go into a > >> message queue and await the moderator's approval > >> > >> Are the spams inspite of the above !? > > > >Very probably. People who are <tactful> in the unfortunate position > ></tactful> of using Windoze but are subscribed to the mailing list > >could well have their computers acting as a spam bot without their > >knowledge. :-( > > It's more likely that people subscribe and then spam.
Since switching brandz-discuss to only-subscribers-can-post, we haven't had a single spam make it out to the list. Unfortunately, the volume of spam that ended up in the moderators' queue was so unmanageable that we eventually had to start rejecting all submissions from non-subscribers sight-unseen. That's a lousy way to have to run a mailing list for an open source project, but we couldn't keep up. If opensolaris.org had some halfway decent spam filters before the moderation stage, we wouldn't have had to take that step. Nils _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
