One of the list settings we have enabled is "only subscribers can post." This will practically block all spam type things. I'm not sure of the history as far as why the list is moderated in addition to subscriber-limited.

Personally, I'd be fine with it being unmoderated.

-- Joe

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Aaron Wiebe epiphani@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings all,

As it stands, the dalnet-src mailing list is filtered.  Back before end-user spam solutions were more prevalent, this made a fair bit of sense.   These days I'm not so sure.

Would anyone have any problem with moving this list to an unmoderated list?  It would make discussion quicker.

Thoughts, comments?

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Subscribers may have spam filtering, but I wouldn't rely on it totally -- for one thing, spam should be kept out of any dalnet-src archives.. I prefer to be able to whitelist mailing list messages. If users of services like 'yahoo' actually got bad messages, and chose 'report spam', it could hurt dal.net's reputation in those services (as dal.net mail servers relayed the spam)

I would think postings from subscribers and possibly other known-good addresses should be made to almost always pass straight through.

Whereas attempts by unknown non-subscribers to post should either require approval or still be filtered, with the sender receiving an error message indicating they need to subscribe.

If spam from subscribers was a problem, well: I know some mailing list management software permits 'new subscribers' (or specific subscribers) to be moderated, and I would suggest looking into that option,

Long-term discussion participants would have already gone through that one-time moderation for first post and already been made unmoderated.

But some bot subscribing just to spam would run into problems.

-- -Mysid