On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:54:09 -0700 Craig Barratt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Is there anything we can do about this? In the last week, BackupPC has > > become my #1 source of such e-mails! > > Assuming there are no complaints, starting this weekend I'm planning > on restricting backuppc-users and backuppc-devel to subscribed users > only. This should eliminate the annoying spam messages. But it does > require users to post emails using the exact from address with which > they are subscribed. > > Unfortunately this takes more administration time since the blocked > messages need to be manually deleted from time to time (or possibly > permitted if they look like legit emails). Would anyone be interested > in doing this administrative task? It would take just a couple of > minutes a few times per week. > > Craig
Craig, Sourceforge uses mailman for its mailing lists. A user with multiple email addresses can subscribe _all_ of them and will be able to post from each of them. If a user doesn't want messages sent to all his/her email addresses, the mailman web interface allows an address to _not_ be sent messages -- thus creating a "post-only" subscribe mode. As you say the administration task isn't too bad. Once a day, each of my lists sends me a "moderator request(s) waiting" message that lists all the messages from non-subscribers. I then use mailman's web interface to accept/reject/discard the messages. (For obvious spam, I use "discard" so a reject message isn't sent.) HTH, David ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
