At 17:40 14/10/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 14 Oct 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > > > > One thing that makes all this more awkward to deal with is the > > > number of non-member (spam) posts that end up in the admin queues > > > waiting to be discarded. As I only ever want to discard them, never > > > forward them, approve them or reply to them, I would prefer them to > > > be silently dropped by Mailman without them ever reaching the admin > > > requests queue. > >Another approach is to stop spam where it should be stopped: before >or at the MTA. It is only prudent for Mailman and other programs >that deal with e-mail to be built with an awareness of the reality >of spam, and it is helpful when such programs include anit-spam >features ... but these should always be regarded as -helps- not >solutions.
From Mailman's point of view, though, the origin of the email is irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether it's "genuine" spam, a mistaken attempt to contact the list administrator by using the list address instead of the admin address, a member trying to post with the wrong address, or whatever. All of these are non-member posts, and all of them get treated exactly the same - that is, they are discarded without replies. A pre-list spam filter will deal with some of it, but not all of it. Mark ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
