Re: How to deal with mailing list ownership & moderators & spam to the lists?

On 2/1/25 7:17 AM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:

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>>
>> So, I see the following options (other than adding mail filters which 
>> simply delete these things on my side):
>>
>> 1. Remove root@ from the list of owners -- which presumably means 
>> root@ can't help with admin tasks for these mailing lists anymore
>
> This should be done.
>
>> 2. Copy the owners - excluding root@ - to the moderators so the flow 
>> to root@ stops
>
> This should be done too.
>
>> 3. Forcibly set mailing lists to drop non-member posts - the current 
>> default seems to be to hold for moderation
>
> I don't know if it can be readily done, but I like how Google Groups 
> work: trusted emails can post to any group without needing to 
> subscribe (which is only for receiving emails from the list). For 
> c-l.net, that could be the list of emails registered in the Gitlab 
> instance, and possibly the list of emails subscribed to other lists as 
> well.
>
> Another idea is to automatically drop messages that are in the 
> moderation queue for more than 365 days. I believe Mailman 2 used to 
> do that.
>
>>
>> Additionally, we could archive (remove submission possibility) for 
>> mailing lists which haven't received a single post for more than 5(?) 
>> or 7(?) or ... years.
>
> I don't think this is necessary.

I agree with this. root shouldn’t have to deal with other mailing lists. 
It’s up to the list owners.

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> Stelian Ionescu
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