I'm one of the moderators on the (moderated) Tesla Coil Mailing List, using Mailman, and Chip Atkinson (list owner) has set up something that silently discards a lot of the spam. I'd say we get maybe <10% posts from non-subscribers coming through along with the rest of the traffic. Of that 10% maybe half or a third is something not worthy of response. The rest of the non-subscriber posts, we just bounce with a nice message saying "please subscribe, and your post will go through".
The list has been around for 10-20 years, so it must receive plenty of spam at the front end. If you're interested, I can put you in touch with Chip and he'd probably be happy to explain what he does. Jim On 8/24/12 6:13 AM, "Joe Landman" <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: >Apologies on the delay: > > >On 08/23/2012 09:06 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to solicit opinions from list members on changing the policy >> of the list on messages from non-subscribers from the current default >> of holding them for moderation to the position of rejecting them (with >> an explanatory message). >> >> The reason is that currently us new list admins get many dozens of >> spams a day being held for moderation and it would be very hard to >> spot a legitimate message (from either a new subscriber or from a new >> member who is having messages held for moderation) amongst them. >> >> It seems fairer to me for legitimate non-members to get an email >> saying that their post has been rejected because they're not a member, >> but pointing them to the web page to subscribe, rather than just a >> message saying it's been held for moderation and then nothing (if it >> gets missed). >> >> It's also fairer to new members who are under moderation (as spammers >> do sign up to lists too) as their messages won't get missed in the >> general flood of non-member spam. >> >> This is how all the other Mailman lists I run are configured and it's >> not caused issues or complaints there. >> >> Thoughts please! >> > >Subscriber only is good. > >> cheers, >> Chris >> - -- >> Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator >> VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative >> Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 >> http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlA2034ACgkQO2KABBYQAh+bKwCePy8HxXFL/cXH3HCvmcyNZcPB >> kYsAn3pa2/pWewv0wJ9Ee7pAJessq3iR >> =RDNl >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > >-- >Joseph Landman, Ph.D >Founder and CEO >Scalable Informatics Inc. >email: land...@scalableinformatics.com >web : http://scalableinformatics.com > http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster >phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 >fax : +1 866 888 3112 >cell : +1 734 612 4615 >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
