On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Mark Goodge 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. > > > >Another approach is to stop spam where it should be stopped: before > >or at the MTA. > > 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.
I must have misunderstood your original post. I read your original post to say, essentially, "I have a lot of administrative requests to deal with every day, and I could deal with them more efficiently if I did not have to bother with all the spam that is commingled in among them; I would like the spam to never reach the administrative queue." And, by "spam" I thought you meant genuine spam, not just "unwanted e-mail". (Spam, of course, is just one particular kind of unwanted e-mail. Some unwanted e-mail is just a part of life; unwanted e-mail from list members who could use an additional clue or two is a part of life as a list owner.) I personally favor taking the opportunity to provide the necessary clue, but I suppose having one's posts disappear into the void provides -some- sort of feedback. (But, in my experience, it almost always leads to follow-up messages, often including accusations that service is poor, or something is broken, or the sys-admins don't know what they are doing, etc.) I -do- see a place for automatically discarding anything that would otherwise require administrative action, but I personally would reserve this feature for one-way (newsletter) lists and the like. The other replies to your post should prove very helpful in implementing the automatic discarding that you seek. - Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mailman Administrator - http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/