Re: Moderation

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:00:16PM +0200, Michael Hayder wrote:
> Am Don, 2003-08-07 um 12.02 schrieb Thomas Arendsen Hein:
> > Spam can be prevented by allowing only subscribed addresses to post.
> > Other addresses will then be held for approval as now every mail is.
> > 
> Not @ all. As far as I know you have a webinterface for the
> maillinglist, which makes it possible to view the thread(s)
> of the maillinglist via web.
> There is the problem !!! I have searched fpr my unique name 
> [email protected] and I found my adress many times in the web.
> There is comming a webharvester and collects the email adresses. And the
> spam is in.

To make it more clear: Spam to the mailing list can be prevented by
allowing only subscribed addresses to post.

Moderation of this list wouldn't help against spam directly sent to
you anyways.

> Please build a webinterface which removes all email-adresses in the
> list-view.  They are not nessesary to view the content

An upgrade to Mailman 2.1.2 would help here.

> > The other problem is advertising from subscribed users. But how
> > much can this be? And banning such people from the list would be an
> > option, too.
>
> You can get them also with the subject....

The topic is spam to the list. If Spam gets through the list, it
will have the [Openbrick] subject, too.

> > Our mailman installation runs SpamAssassin to lower the number of
> > mails to discard. I can provide you with details how to set this up
> > after my vacation (that is at the end of August).
> > 
> :-> ....  not usefull .... good spammers are sending coded words so spam
> assasin would not work correct.... use a harded m ailserver like qmail
> and use the tools deliverd with it ... rblcheck,dnsreverse check etc. 

SpamAssassin uses some RBLs, too, but you have to adjust the scoring
to let one RBL hit kill a mail.

Thomas

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