Re: Spam to the mailing list

[Christian Rose <menthos gnu org>]

ons 2003-02-12 klockan 15.48 skrev German Poo Caaman~o:
> > > > My suggestion is that we should make gnome-i18n subscribers-only (and of
> > > > course also allow for postings from members of post-only), in order to
> > > > prevent spam. What do other people think?
> > > 
> > > I agree. (But it means more work for the admin of the list, in this 
> > > case you)
> > 
> > Yeah, but I'm prepared to take that risk. :) Better to have an admin
> > drowned in spam than a whole mailing list, or something like that.
> > 
> > My only concern is the danger of unsubscribed people's mails getting
> > stuck in the admin queue for a day or more (I can't promise I'll be
> > monitoring the queue daily all the time, although I've almost done so so
> > far). Don't know what to do about that, except keeping encouraging
> > people to subscribe to the list (and/or post-only).
> 
> In this case you can set another admin.  Mailman will sent to you an
> email for each request and it will remain to you daily that are
> administrative mail pendings, so if there is another person, the 
> delay will be minimum.

I will consider that, but I'll wait a little to see how bad things turn
out to be. :)
The list options have been changed now, btw, so hopefully things should
still be working... Let me know if they aren't.


Christian