Alan Burlison wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> That only works so far. Effective blacklisting can minimize the
>> effectiveness of such approaches, and ultimately, if the occasional
>> spam gets thru, its not the end of the world.
>
> When it has happened in the past we got questions from on high about
> why people were sending hate mail via lists we manage. Making things
> easy for spammers is a non-starter, and what is being proposed is
> exactly that.
No, what I proposed does not do that. Making lists auto-moderate would
still keep *human* reviewers in the loop.
>
>> Do we have any normal spam filtering in place for these lists? That
>> can help too!
>
> Yes, we do, a combination or RBLs and filtering. In the last 24 hours
> we rejected approximately 140,000 spams.
>
> I suspect the community doesn't realise just how much effort goes into
> keeping the mailing lists usable, because most of the work goes on
> behind the scenes.
Yes, I can certainly appreciate that.
- Garrett
