I've discussed this issue with Herbert and others before. Allready now we have spamassassin, denial of html mails, denial of posts, that don't have the mailinglist in To: or Cc:, virusscan and various other stuff in place on the mailinglist server and you wouldn't believe how much spam actually ends up to be managed by the moderator + what spamassassin allready takes.
I have suggested, that I could implement a whitelisting option that looks like this: - All subscribers to the mailinglist are automatic whitelistet. - "+" as a delimiter would be taken care of, meaning if you use one time email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] the frontend would search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the whitelist. - Everybody who is not in the whitelist will get a mail to confirm hos post, once confirmed (either by reply or url) the mail is send to the mailinglist - Mails not confirmed within 7 days will be discarded automatically. - Mails where the mailinglist name not is in either To: or Cc: will allways be discarded. I haven't yet got any feedback if that would be acceptible or not Kind regards, Martin List-Petersen martin (at) list (dash) petersen (dot) net On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:59, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > Den 16. jun 2004, kl. 14:47, skrev Herbert Poetzl: > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:18:00AM -0400, Guarino, Kenneth (ETSD) > > wrote: > >> This is the vserver list. I don't want this shit. > > > > well, me neither, what do you propose? > > > > some things I would like to avoid: > > > > - closed mailing list (lkml doesn't need it, why should we?) > > - additional work (like reviewing every post personally) > > well, we just need some automatic spam recognition software, this could > be one or more of the > following solutions: > > greylisting - at the mailling list server, works by temporarely denying > emails (spammers dont retry). > once the real mailerdaemon retries, the mailinglist > server looks up > a tripple based on > to, from and the connecting mailerdaemon ip address > spamassassin - checks the mail for rules that makes it look like spam. > If it is spam, let Mr. moderator, > aka Kenneth Guarino, see if it is spam or not. > SPF - We users should really use SPF to tell what sending > mailservers > we use. > > > And thus Herbert is free to code on vserver, something we all benefit > from. > > > > JonB > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
