On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:06:50PM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > 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.
could you make those spamassasin tags available to the recipient of the ml mails? that would allow folks to further restrict the postings ... > 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 that sounds acceptable to me ... TIA, Herbert PS: it seems that folks still have problems subscribing to the mailing list ... PPS: maybe I misunderstood your proposal the last time > 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 _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver