From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro Subject: Re: mailing list filters? Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:57:06 -0300 Message-ID: <4468C0F2.1000406@instant.com.br> References: <4465DCA6.2020205@gmail.com> <4468B96A.7030707@redfish-solutions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4468B96A.7030707@redfish-solutions.com> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Philip Prindeville Cc: Takashi Iwai , Alvaro Kuolas , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Philip Prindeville wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> At Sat, 13 May 2006 10:18:30 -0300, >> Alvaro Kuolas wrote: >> >>> Hello all. >>> >>> Searching a little bit about the spam problems. On the "[Alsa-devel] >>> crypto layer in alsa" thread says that this is a know problem. >>> >>> Why not filter all except for text and patch (goodbye HTML, JPG, etc)? >>> Or just receive email only from subscribers? >> >> We did the latter one but no longer now since non-subscribers often >> need to post to alsa-devel ML, too, especially Cc'ed from LKML posts. >> >>> Why not both? >>> >>> These are "whys", I'm just asking. >> >> The problem seems in the redirection from *@alsa-project.org to SF's >> address. The spams tend to go through in this route. >> Maybe an additional filtering in this route would be efficient. >> >> Jaroslav, what do you think? >> >> Takashi > > I offered to help out with that (I'm also a mimedefang and > spamassassin developer) > but didn't hear back. My suggestion is: reply with a challenge from any non-subscriber post, and then (optionally) insert the sender in a whitelist so s/he doesn't need to go through the challenge process at every message. There is mailing list software out there that does that -- is Sourceforge's among them? ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642