On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 02:03 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > on 12/18/08 6:15 PM, Marvin Humphrey said: > > > I run a couple software support mailing lists on a site that's been around > > for > > a decade or so. I'm the only admin, and an avalanche of spam crashes down > > on > > me every day. > > Welcome to the club.
It's possible to use SpamAssassin with Mailman to cut down on the spam making it through the list to you. See James Henstridge's solution at <http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/> for one method of doing this. Please note, though, that Henstridge's SpamAssassin.py is out of date and requires a small patch to work with current versions of Mailman. Mark Sapiro posted the one-line patch on Dec. 16 to this list in the thread with a subject of "Anomalies since upgrading to 2.1.11". See the list archive. I use SpamAssassin in this way and cut down substantially on the volume of spam reaching list moderators. I note that Brad doesn't mention this solution in his reply to you, so it may be frowned upon officially, but I've found it helpful. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
