Thank you for all your ideas. I was just a bit surprised that a list would be available for anyone to post to, since we emphasize to our users that their lists are protected from spam, as all lists require you to be a subscribe to post, and many require mod permissions to post. That is still true and they are well protected, except for the message sent directly to listname-owner.
Anyway, I will have to figure out a way to deal with the increase in spam that I get at the mailman posting address. It is better to have valid messages getting to me than to go nowhere, as they did before I set up the mailman aliases for the mailman list. Thanks for your answers. On 5/23/07, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Adams wrote: > > >Thanks, Mark. That seemed too obvious. Doesn't setting > >generic_nonmember_action to accept result in a lot of spam to the > >Mailman site admin? How are others dealing with this? > > > First, let me say that if your listinfo overview page says "If you are > having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]", > you should actually look at that mail. > > Unfortunately, changing the overview pages to not say that requires > patching Mailman code so it isn't always feasable to remove the > message. This will change in some future release, but that doesn't > help the immediate situation. > > You can do other things with the list settings, but setting the list to > reject or discard non-member posts is not right IMO. Setting the list > to hold non-member posts is OK, but then the list admin or moderator > has to deal with them anyway, so why not just accept them, at least if > the person who receives them from the list is the same person who has > to deal with them if they're held. > > You can also set some header_filter_rules to try to discard some spam > if you can identify it that way. > > The first step though is to have some kind of spam filtering and/or > greylisting on incoming mail so as little spam as possible even gets > to Mailman in the first place. That's what I do for my lists and the > list admins have to deal with the rest. And yes, I still spend an > inordinate amount of time checking spam at least cursorily for > legitimate messages. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > -- Christopher Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
