On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zoo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Brian J Mingus > <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > > Moderating this stuff requires moderating all messages. > > Not quite. GNU Mailman comes with nice features to ease this task. You > can configure it so that everyone who is currently subscribed can post > freely, but new subscribers get a "moderated" bit set on them. The > first time this new subscriber attempts to post to the list, a human > moderator has to inspect their message and decide whether to approve > it or deny it. If they human moderator approves it, they can also on > the same web form remove the "moderated" bit from that poster. > > Therefore, the volunteer work required would be inspecting the *first* > post from each *new* subscriber to see if that post is spam. > > Regards, > > Zooko > I like this approach, but I like even better simply disabling the usenet gateway. I can't find the message now but someone mentioned it would almost completely get rid of the spam problem. I disagree with Steve Holden that since it's only ~1% we should just ignore it.
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