I would hate to see this resource change into another form. It truly is an *incredibly valuable resource* with a high signal to noise ratio and virtually spam free - thanks Don.
I would also be willing to bet that the collective minds of this list can figure out a way to keep it intact. Whether it be more automated control or the assistance of some trusted members to do the "Turing Test" work. -- Doug > > After having a near-perfect record of keeping out spam and virus > email, one slipped through yesterday. > > It's a good example of why mailing lists can't be auto-moderated. > The current elaborate system requires heavy human moderation, and this > message still slid past everything and was automatically approved. > > The message appeared to come from a subscribed user, so it passed the > first check. (This is actually common: spammers and viruses use pairs of > addresses from the same source, so evil mail is likely to come from > someone you have heard of.) > > The message passed both ClamAV and SpamAssasin (although a compressed > zip file should have triggered something). It didn't have any of the > keywords that are configured in Mailman's "hold" rules. And finally, that > user was approved for auto-post for messages that passed all of the > previous rules. > > Please keep this event in mind before you complain that your message was > held for moderation. 95-99% (depending on the day) of inbound mail to the > mailing lists is immediately discarded as obvious viruses and spam. > Only very low scoring mail from approved subscribers is eligible for > auto-approval The rest is held for manual moderation. Only about 2% of > those held messages are valid postings. That means about 50 messages > manually discarded for each manually approved posting. And except for a > few weeks scattered over the history of the list, I've been the sole or > primary moderator. > > The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to > replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to > post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls. > Any opinions? > > -- > Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems > 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
