Listhelper and spam control If you're using a mailman list on lists.gnu.org for your project(*), it's possible to configure mailman to automatically delete most spam. Here's how:
* On the General Options page: - add [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a moderator (not administrator). - ensure admin_immed_notify=yes - ensure respond_to_post_requests=no (**) * On the Privacy Options > Sender Filters page: - ensure generic_nonmember_action=hold That is it. Without going into every detail, the result is that message that remain in the hold queue will be piped through a very-conservatively-configured spamassassin, and 95+% of spam will be automatically deleted after a short delay (usually measured in minutes, unless things get backlogged). Real messages from non-members (or non-approved addresses) will remain in the hold queue, and need to be approved by a human. (We recommend adding real addresses to the "accept in the future" list when approving them.) Thus, you should pay attention to the once-a-day mailman notification when there are "pending message(s)", but ignore the once-per-message mailman notification. The process does not affect messages from members and approved addresses, which continue go through without delay. The system was set up by Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with kibitzing from Karl Berry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The two of us attempt review every spam and nonspam that goes through the system, to try to catch misclassified messages. (Very very few real messages are classified as spam; we've been running the system for a year or so, and have had only half a dozen or so, out of I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of messages.) Please feel free to add your GNU lists, we don't need to be explicitly informed. And of course we're happy to answer any questions. And if you need help moderating the list, likewise let us know. I come across volunteers from time to time. Futures: GNU sysadmin continues to work on an integrated mail handling system that will be an improvement in many ways over this. But this is what we could do now, to try to keep from drowning in the junk in the meanwhile. (*) Actually, the listhelper system is not tied to gnu.org in any way. A few people are using it for handling non-GNU mailman lists as well. If you'd like to do that, email us. (**) Actually, respond_to_post_requests has nothing to do with the listhelper system. But it's important to do, because it reduces backscatter from lists.gnu.org, which in turn decreases our chance of being blacklisted. And most lists are set up by default to have respond_to_post_requests=yes. -- forwarded from https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/[EMAIL PROTECTED]://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance _______________________________________________ Savannah-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-cvs
