I am thinking we need a Monty Python Captcha
"What is your name"
"What is your quest"
"What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow"
...
On 08/24/2012 09:01 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 10:03 PM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
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>> Does someone have a figure of how many non-subscribers
On 08/24/2012 09:32 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
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> 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 th
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% m
Apologies on the delay:
On 08/23/2012 09:06 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> 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 th
On 08/24/2012 10:03 PM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> Does someone have a figure of how many non-subscribers posts we are
> talking about ? I have the impression that lately I've seen only
> messages coming from "regulars". If non-subscribers post very little,
> then such a change would not be very ann
A few others and myself have been moderating the list to ensure only legit
subscribers get through. With that being said there are quite a fair bit of
emails coming in from non subscribers which is proving rather hard to keep
up with.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On F
On 08/24/2012 10:11 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> Hi all,
Hiya!
> I am one of the many who cannot post to the list despite being a member of it
> for some years. :-/
Well I spotted your message in the queue and let it through, so welcome!
> I think the policy was that only members can post
On 08/24/2012 08:26 PM, Gregory Matthews wrote:
> this is not a good idea - your list can become a spam mirror and
> replying to spammers is bad in lots of ways.
The Mailman software is *already* doing this for the Beowulf list as it
replies to every message held for moderation with a link so th
Maybe we should have a
'Please send us a brief email explaining why you would like to join
the list so that we know that your not a spammer"
2012/8/24 Christopher Samuel :
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> Hi all,
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> I'd like to solicit opinions from list members on changing
Hi all,
I am one of the many who cannot post to the list despite being a member of it
for some years. :-/
I think the policy was that only members can post (good thing in my opinion)
and new members are moderated.
I am moderating an email list here as well and unfortunately the list's email
a
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Christopher Samuel
wrote:
> 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 messa
Correct me if im wrong Arend doesnt mailman already have a black list
mechanism in a way?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Gregory Matthews <
greg.matth...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote:
> this is not a good idea - your list can become a spam mirror and
> replying to spammers is bad in lots of ways. Get
this is not a good idea - your list can become a spam mirror and
replying to spammers is bad in lots of ways. Get a good spam filter,
MailScanner + SpamAssassin + selected blacklists + selected
sendmail/postfix plugins.
GREG
On 24/08/12 02:06, Christopher Samuel wrote:
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