Re: [Savannah-hackers] How to fight spam on GNU mailing lists

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Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:

> > Please note I am unable to participate in a particular set up or 
> > implementation work, I can help only in a limited way.  I hope my 
> > message is constructive enough otherwise, so you'll forgive me that. 
> > People seem to be annoyed by spam on gnu.org mailing lists enough to 
> > volunteer in this area, *once we agree on a proper solution*. 
>  
>  
> Personnally, I agree completely. 
> We should try to get a more efficient antispam system... and integrated  
> in savannah should be fine. It's a pain to use the mailman interface... 
> In the meantime, I will try to add a page that will include the mailman  
> interface in a easy manner in savannah. 

I wouldn't bother adding anything to savannah. The problem is the time
it takes to navigate the web interface when the interface for alerts
is mail.

We need to add 2 new admin request types to the mailman admin
interface:

- discard
- accept

the spam message can then be returned to the request address with
those as the commands, eg:

  to: address@hidden
  subject: discard
  --------
  text of alert message sent by mailman:
  > possible spam message: kl2345kh15lk312h5lkh
  .
  .
  .


>  
>    "- I also delay messages coming from hotmail.com or yahoo.com, those 
>    sites are unable to stop being spam sources.  This rule is 
>    controversial, but it applies well in the particular case of the GNU 
>    GNATS lists." 
> We should to the same for known open relay SMTP. 

I think we already do... I seem to remember that SMAIL (which is used
for all incomming mail) was configured to do that.


Nic