-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This seems to be a pretty hot topic. I'd like to make note of what I did to stop spam on my list.
First is of course that only members can post to the list. I did my best to review where legitimate email comes from. I realized that it's very very seldom among any list that non-members ever try to post to a list without it being spam. From what I've seen, this has never happened to my list. This caused me to do this in /privacy/sender: generic_nonmember_action: Reject nonmember_rejection_notice: A very kind message explaining why Second is that some spammers to join lists in order to spam. To avoid this, in /privacy/sender: default_member_moderation: Yes member_moderation_action: Hold To help open the constraint a little bit, I've also added this in /privacy/sender: accept_these_nonmembers: ^...@canonical\.com$ ^...@ubuntu\.com$ What I do is when they make a post for the first time after subscribing, it will be held for moderation. After I approve this, their mod setting will be turned off and they have free range to post. My list is pretty low volume and over 99% of my previous email was simply spam. This level has dropped to about 10%. 10% I can manage, 99% was killing me. I was thinking there was an option to automatically remove the mod bit, but I'm not finding where it exists. For non-members that need to post, I also put in the rejection notice a link to a form that will will be accepted. I used Drupal to make this form. I hope this helps some of you. Of course, I may be too restrictive. - -- Michael Lustfield Kalliki Software, SD LoCo Network and Systems Administrator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoqDTMACgkQ3y7Nst6YLGVnXQCeIQlmdKETLWTz3asZnhBXje4Q Q5gAni+DCSuS+D9TSq0IX2Aw6ijKKOzT =4xcZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
