Well, I am concerned I could miss something using the local spam filter. I guess I will have to stay with that approach. Thanks for the input, much appreciated.
Thank You, Stephen H. Dawson (865) 804-3454 http://www.linkedin.com/in/shdcs On 02/17/2014 12:18 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 11:57 -0500, Stephen H. Dawson wrote: >> I receive email that remotecontrol has a new posting, needing my review. >> I go to review the posting, and it is gone. I assume it is due to spam, >> as the email I receive about a notification are also are flagged by my >> email client as spam. >> >> It seems like a waste of time to email, then one second later identify >> the list posting as spam. It seems more valuable to receive the list >> posting, determine if it is spam, and only then email when it is >> determined to not be spam. >> >> What will it take to improve the emailing to list holders, to not be >> bothered with notification of postings that are identified as spam? > I think this would be a very significant change, because the > notification of moderation is handled by mailman as soon as the mail is > received, while the spam detection is a separate step that is > implemented for the GNU mailing lists and runs periodically. Finding a > way to add hooks into the mailman notification methods so that they > won't run until after the spam detector has run on that email would be a > lot of effort, I expect, and probably involve new development on the > mailman side. > > What I do is train my _local_ spam detection to throw all the spammy > moderation requests into my local spam folder. The GNU mailing list > spam detecter is really extremely good now, so I completely ignore (do > not bother to moderate) all moderation requests that are put into my > spam folder and I assume they'll disappear on their own. If I'm > scanning my local spam folder and I notice something that needs > moderation that's not spam I train my spam filter on it, then handle it. > > That leaves (a) moderation mail that doesn't match my local spam filter > and shows up in my inbox, which I'll deal with directly (if it's not > spam I'll approve it, if it is spam I train my local spam filters on it > then delete it), and (b) daily reports of mail that needs moderation > from the GNU lists: if I get this email then something I thought was > spam was not considered spam by the GNU list spam detector. In that > case I go handle it. > > In the very worst case this may mean that a message waits a day to get > moderated, but this is a very rare situation once you've trained your > local filters. > > I find I spend very little time on GNU list moderation, which is > excellent! > > > HTH! > > >
