Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:21:32 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Mike Lempriere <mike@vintners.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: list spam Message-ID: <20080310132013.R45443@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <e7db6d980803092336i14fb5433sd80a872d0a8ccd44@mail.gmail.com> References: <000e0cd28bfc044804ee5227d22ecd@google.com> <47D4BEC1.5000704@vintners.net> <e7db6d980803092336i14fb5433sd80a872d0a8ccd44@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mike Lempriere <mike@vintners.net> wrote: >> I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating this >> list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post? > > I for one would like this too. > > On one hand, it is inconvenient for people with multiple email addresses, > but there is an easy way around that. What you do is subscribe twice, and > go to the options page and turn off email for one of them. That way you can > (for example) email with your normal address and receive email from the list > on unique addresses for sorting or whatever. > > We do this on other lists for freebsd.org. However, we need to have mailman > be a little smarter about it. Right now, it holds the messages for > moderation. Instead, it needs to immediately bounce the email with > instructions about what to do. Otherwise we have the situation where > somebody emails and gets i the queue, then sends with the right address and > it goes through. Later on, the message is approved and we get a duplicate on > the list. If we're going to go that route, what I'd like to see is a message-free freebsd-posters list I can join once using a posting address that is then authorized to post to any list. That way I don't have to talk the 80+ mailing lists and re-subscribe to each one a second time, disabling receipt of messages, etc. This would also allow us to expempt things like gnats, etc, easily. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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