[Buildbot-devel] Spam on list

[Justin Mason]

Charles Lepple writes:
> On 4/27/07, dustin at zmanda.com <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
> > For the Entertrack list, I turned on holding of posts from
> > non-subscribers, as well as auto-expiry.  Now, as admin, I get notices
> > of held messages, but if they're from [random string]@[somewhere].jp,
> > then I just ignore them and they are automatically discarded.  The list
> > subscribers never see anything.
> >
> > Thoughts on doing the same for this list?
> 
> That's basically what we do on the Network UPS Tools lists, and if
> someone is a regular poster but still won't subscribe, there's always
> the "add to whitelist" checkbox as well.
> 
> I realize it's an extra burden on the list moderator, but we
> distribute the load over several moderators, and it's not that bad. It
> makes it a lot easier to catch up after being away for a few days.

We do that too at the ASF.

for what it's worth, I wrote a specialized UI for moderation of
Mailman/ezmlm lists: http://taint.org/wk/ModerateList .  It includes
built-in spam checking using, naturally enough, SpamAssassin ;)

Dunno if it works for the version of Mailman used at sf.net, though...

--j.