Re: [Bug-gnubg] too much spam?

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 06 Jan 2004 (22:11 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's possible to change the mailing list so only members may post. This
> should effectively reduce the spam to nil, but will make it more
> difficult for a user to report a problem, since the user will have to
> subscribe first.
> 
> Comments?

Move the mailing list to a machine where we can pass incoming mail
through spamassassin prior to passing it to the mailing list. Mail not
tagged is then passed directly to the list exploder. Mail from
specific sender addresses (moderators) is sent directly to the
exploder. Mail tagged as possible spam is forwarded to a moderator
(I'd be willing to be one) and, if OK, the moderator can resumbit it
and it will be accepted.
. 
This should reduce the levels sufficiently. I don't know if we could
do this on gnu.org, although I'd guess other lists hosted there have
the same problems. I assume address@hidden is now available on one
of the 250million email address CDs somewhere.

I am very much against closing posting to non-subscribers.

I would not be happy if I were a casual user who simply ran into a
little problem and I could not easily report it or get help without
having to subscribe to a mailing list (with the extra steps of
confirmed opt-in). I might then be doubly unhappy when I began to
receive emails about the finer points of gtk or generating METs, when
my entire problem was not knowing how to import a match from FIBs.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden