[Audacity-devel] List viruses and spam

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

I need help.

Filtering the Audacity mailing lists has become a part-time job.
So far in June the lists have received about 200 messages that
are caught by SF's mail filter - either they're too large (usually
a virus/worm like Klez) or they're not sent by a list member
(now that it's a members-only list).  In the past week it's been
getting worse - more than 10 a day.

Every single message triggers an email - currently going to my
inbox, and requires me to click on a link, type in the list
password, scroll through the page, click on a tiny radio button
for "delete", and then hit "Submit".  It's 10 times more annoying
than deleting a normal spam/virus, cause I can't just hit a
"delete" button.  If there's more than one message, I only have
to type the password once, but the interface is still very clumsy -
no way to quickly see all of the message subjects and senders on
one page and click "delete all".

I'm hoping for:

1. Someone to help set up a very simple, very reliable email
    forwarder to a list of a few volunteers to receive these
    emails, so I don't have to be the only one doing the
    filtering.

and/or:

2. Someone to write some scripts to automatically filter out
    the majority of the viruses/spam, by actually writing a
    script to go to the Mailman interface, analyze the HTML,
    and send the appropriate form response.  If you've done some
    perl hacking before, using wget or curl, this shouldn't be
    that bad.

- Dominic