Re: [Usability] Recent spam increase

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

fre 2003-04-25 klockan 01.26 skrev Alan Horkan:
> no it is not just you
> 
> i mailed something like
> 
> usability-admin
> but got no reply so far.

http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability/ says "Usability list
run by anna ximian com" so it appears Anna is the list administrator.
Perhaps she just hasn't looked at this issue yet.

As Havoc said, the common way of gnome.org mailing lists these days is
to have them subscribers-only, i.e. only subscribers can post without
being moderated, in order to prevent spam coming to list subscribers. An
exception is the post-only list
(http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/post-only/) whose subscribers
can post to all gnome.org mailing lists (that are configured to allow
that) without being subscribed to the individual lists. This is a
convenience hack so that people can post from several e-mail addresses,
etc, without being moderated.

But this decision is mostly up to the current list administrator. The
benefit of going this route is less or no spam to list subscribers, the
drawback is that someone (the list maintainer) needs to moderate a
mailing list queue at least once a day (for this reason, it helps having
several list administrators). Anna, is this ok with you?

In order to make this so, if this is ok, the current list administrator
needs to change two options in the Privacy section of the administrative
interface: "Restrict posting privilege to list members?" should be
changed to Yes, and post-only gnome org be added to "List of mailing
lists whose members are accepted for posting to this list without
implicit approvement".


Christian