[Buildbot-devel] spam on list

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 4/17/07, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Brian Warner wrote:
> > "Gianluca Sforna" <giallu at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Am I the only one annoyed by the amount of spam coming through this list?
> > > Looks like there is something seriously flawed in the configuration;
> > > any project admin around so we can try to fix this?
> >
> > I took a quick look at the Mailman settings available to me.. it doesn't look
> > like there are any knobs to address this. We're kind of at the mercy of
> > sf.net's admins and whatever solutions they come up with for the site
> > overall.
>
> If you can flip the bit for "moderate all messages whose From address
> is not a list subscriber", then that tends to be what catches the
> stuff the spam filters miss.  (At the cost that you have to skim the
> moderation-needed messages mailman sends you as list owner and
> manually let through anyone who isn't a subscriber.)
>

why don't just block non subscribes from posting? There are always
other means to send messages w/o subscribing, for example through
gmane[1].


[1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.buildbot.devel