[ECOS] Spam on list

[Jonathan Larmour]

David N. Welton wrote:
> The Apache Software Foundation lists work pretty well.  Members can
> automatically post, and non-member posts go to a moderator where they
> have to be approved.  Moderation takes nothing more than hitting
> 'reply to', usually.  And if you reply to the correct address, that
> person has posting rights in the future, automatically.  We use ezmlm
> to do this.
> 
> I volunteer to moderate, if someone is needed - I already do it for a

Thanks for the offer, but I don't think the problem is bad enough to 
require moderation.

However, I do wonder (out loud, and sources.redhat.com overseers CC'd) 
about linking a system like SpamAssasin to some sort of robomoderation 
scheme. i.e. if it scores badly with SpamAssasin, it isn't rejected, but 
instead a message is sent to the user to confirm the mail is legitimate. 
If it always catches a certain user due to their e-mail address or some 
other reason, there could be a whitelist.

So, David, if you're willing to spend time, that might be a useful way to 
do it, beneficial to all the sources.redhat.com projects!

Jifl
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