Our experience with the AutoDock mailing list with members-only posting is pretty positive. When a user registers to the mailing list, his/her first post needs to be approved once, then future posts get straight to the mailing list. Spam messages can be either ignored or rejected.
I don't know how much work would be to filter messages without this mechanism, but it is fairly easy to manage (I'm basically the only one taking care of it). On the other hand, I don't know openbabel-dev works, but if every single message needs to be approved, it sounds like more work to me. My 2 cents. On 03/16/2017 06:52 AM, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: >> May I suggest that we change openbabel-dev to only allow posting by >> members? That is, that posts by non-members are rejected (with a >> message) without review. > > I don't think this is a good idea. I don't want to find out if the spammers > have figured out how to sign up for mailing lists. If you send a message on > rejection, you will guarantee an increase in spam posts, because the e-mail > of the mailing list will now be "proven." > >> This would reduce the admin burden on spam filtering. > > If you don't want to handle spam filtering, that's fine, I can take you off > the moderator list. As is, I handle it a few times a week and filter the > requests into a separate folder. > > -Geoff > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-Devel mailing list > OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel > -- Stefano Forli, PhD Assistant Professor of ISCB Molecular Graphics Laboratory Dept. of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, MB-112A The Scripps Research Institute 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037-1000, USA. tel: +1 (858)784-2055 fax: +1 (858)784-2860 email: fo...@scripps.edu http://www.scripps.edu/~forli/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
