Re: [OpenJade-devel] Spam

[Ian C. <ian...@co...>]

On the topic of Spam I was going to say that:

1) Don't really want to have to moderate - or rather don't want to have
to have a moderator - too much work, who would it be etc.

2) Spam can either be filtered before it hits the list.

3) Or before it hits the recipients mailbox.

3) is obviously the responsibility of the individual recipient - all my
incoming email is filtered for spam and it does a pretty good job - I
haven't actually seen any of the messages that sparked this thread.
Including one of the replies from Brandon which also contained the spam
in full!

2) Is in the remit of sourceforge. I was going to say that we can either
ask them for improved spam filtering - or take the list elsewhere (i.e.
run it on some machine where we can spam filter).

However, I've just recieved this note from the sourceforge mailing list
which you may not have recieved as subscription to this list is
optional:

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[Under the section upcoming features]

- Spam filtering.  The wave of spam continues to be a big problem for
anyone who has an e-mail address on the net.  SourceForge.net, due to
its size is a easy target for spam and spammers.  We already do quite a
bit to prevent unwanted email from SourceForge.net mailing lists and
SF.NET user e-mail addresses, but we will be adding a new filtering tool
which will help a great deal.  We've been using the filter internally
here for a few months and it works great.  I'll give you more
information before we roll it out site-wide.
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So hopefully things can improved and if there are no problems then the
restrictions on the mailing list can be removed.


On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 16:20, Brandon Ibach wrote:
> Quoting Brandon Ibach <bi...@in...>:
> >    I'll go ahead and put this restriction in place.  If anyone wants
> > to volunteer as a "backup" moderator, please let me know.
> > 
>    Ok... the change has been made.  Mailman also has an option for a
> list of addresses that are allowed to post, even though they aren't on
> the list, so if there are some people that post on a reasonably
> frequent basis, but aren't on the list (for whatever reason), we could
> make use of that to cut down on moderator approvals.
> 
> -Brandon :)
>