Re: mailing list filters?

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro@instant.com.br>]

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?


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