On Tue 11 Feb 2003 16:15, Charles Bartels wrote:
It would be nice if the administrator of this list put in some spam control. It's getting a bit ridiculous.
Speaking as the administrator of a largish list elsewhere, it would be nice if people recognised that automatic detection of spam without manual intervention is by no means a trivial process, and that most mailing-list administrators have enough on their plates as things stand.
That said, the solution I came up with for linux.ie lists works moderately well - I have Justin Mason's "SpamAssassin" inline with the command to post to the list - eg:
In the aliases file, replace:
list: "|mailman post list"
with:
list: "|clean-and-post list"
where clean-and-post is basically "spamassassin -x | mailman post $1" (paths omitted for clarity).
I then have mailman set up to hold for moderation any posts where the SpamAssassin "x-spam-flag: yes" line appears.
Works nicely - some spam still gets through, but you can tweak SA and modify its rules over time. Nice.
Colm