Cyndi Norwitz wrote: > From: "Vinita Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:07:09 +0530 > > I have a list where non members can post but their messages are > moderated, I ave to deal with a lot of spam. After sometime, just a > small percentage of them will be good posts. > >I'm in the same boat. All of my members are moderated at first (including >all new subscribers) and there are a handful that will need moderation >forever. I've found that taking the time to click on the auto-discard for >the sender address of the spammers is making a big difference. > >I also go into Privacy Options: Sender Filters to the >discard_these_nonmembers area. You can set it up to discard posts from >certain domain names. Unfortunately, you have to hunt for the formula >because it's not a general wildcard. I had to spent some time in the FAQ >to get this info.
See <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html> for the syntax of Python regular expressions. >For example, add this line to discard any message from bipolartom.com (a >big source of my list mail spam): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@(.*\.)?bipolartom\.com$ > >I still can not figure out how to discard certain usernames (or, >preferably, partial user names). I get a lot of psychologyschool and >cookingschool @ various domains. ^psychologyschool@ ^cookingschool@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ The latter will match any local part that ends in 'school'. >I was surprised to find that this little bit of extra work means that like >3/4 of my spam is being automatically discarded. I was also very happy to >find out that the onslaught of spam I expected didn't come (most of the >spammers used email addresses from my previous server that didn't >transfer). Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time until they find the new addresses. Also, I have found that the addresses and domains that are the alleged source of spam (From:) will change over time, so maintaining those regexps will be an ongoing process. I have recently set up a new server with the same domain names as the old server. The old server used an old version of SpamAssassin to filter mail. I set up the new server with greylisting (Postgrey) and MailScanner (using ClamAV and SpamAssassin/DCC/Razor/Pyzor). I was amazed. I went from several dozen spam messages per day hitting my lists and being held to about one a week. > Is there an easy way to discard all messages waiting to be reviewed? > >Yes. The default setting is defer. Once you've dealt with any real posts, >go ahead and click on "discard all posts marked defer" (or something to >that effect). Actually, it is a checkbox on the admindb overview page. Check the box and click the submit button. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
