Re: [Bug-gnubg] too much spam?

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:01:47PM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote
> > 
> > An alternative solution instead of rejecting message from unsubscribed
> > persons, is to "hold" such messages. The message is not posted until
> > it's approved by a moderator. This is like a manual spam filter. In
> > fact, with some procmail magic it might be possible to automate the
> > process.
> 
> 
> Yes, if we can arrange this. Ideally non-subscriber postings are
> forwarded to some other address (the moderator's). This can use
> procmail to run a spam check and auto-approve if it looks clean and
> leave only the dubious ones for human intervention. 

Well, I would auto-approve clean ones and move the others to /dev/null :-)

No human intervention at all :-)

> But again, all
> this requires the co-operation of the gnu.org admins to set up mail
> handling for bug-gnubg so that non-member postings are re-routed.

That's already possible through the mailman interface, there is an
option what to do with messages from non-subscribers:

[X] Accept
[ ] Reject
[ ] Hold
[ ] Discard

The idea is to activate Hold instead of Accept. This results in an email
to the list administrators which could be autoprocessed.

Jørn

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