Re: Spam coming from the list

[Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>]

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:04:46 +0200 (CEST) Harald Milz wrote:

> > People should not have to be subscribed to a list just to report a
> > bug. It's annoying as hell every time I come up with random patches,
> > dig out the contact address out of MAINTAINERS, and send patches to
> > get a 'you aren't subscribed yadayada' email back.
> 
> Understand. The question is which evil is the bigger one ... It's not
> as if spam were less annoying ;-)

IMHO, making the list moderated for non-subscribers can be a viable
solution, *as long* as the list-admin is relatively prompt in approving
any legitimate non-subscriber message.

I personally administer a GNU-Mailman-based list and I setup things that
way (all subscriber-generated messages pass, all
non-subscriber-generated messages must be approved to pass): no junk
mail reaches the list.
Of course this takes a little effort from me (whenever I receive a
Mailman-generated advisory that some messages are waiting for approval),
but I think that the benefits outweight the drawbacks (at least for low
to medium traffic lists...).

My 2 cents...


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