Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:26:42 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: Spam-Problem |
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Larry McVoy wrote:
> : I would suggest a "semi-closed" List. > : > : All Mails from know E-Mail Adresses can pass and only mails from unknown > : addresses must be approved by a moderator. > : > : This way everybody can post to the list. And except of the first Mail > : there wouldn't be any delays. > : > : (Yes i know that isn't perfect, but IMHO better than doing nothing) > > A possible improvement on this already good idea: > > suppose we have a list of volunteers who will screen messages, the list > is linux-kernel-screeners@vger.rutgers.edu . Anyone can sign up for > this list be David gets to exclude people for bad taste. When a mail > comes in from an unknown address it gets bounced to the screeners list. > If it isn't spam one or more people reply to the bounced mail and the > reply is an OK to forward this. The idea being to make sure that mail > gets through promptly if it is OK.
I have a list that works like this currently and it's a major pain. Approving a message that's bounced is an annoyance so all the owners assume someone else will approve it. There's also no granularity in passwords, so moderators are effectively owners.
> In order for this to work, somebody needs to volunteer to set this up > and manage it. That somebody needs to grok stuff like perl and mail, > etc. In other words, if you could rewrite majordomo then you're > perfect. This is a good chance for a non-kernel hacker to make the > kernel hackers eternally grateful. Anyone?
Hacking the duplicate filter that's needed into Majordomo (it has to be in resend for this purpose, trust me) was also a pain. I offered them to David a couple times in the last few years, but he's never shown any interest.
Meanwhile, Majordomo 2 is nearing a useful state. It already knows about duplicates (based on message bodies as well as IDs), multiple owners, moderators, MIME, real digests, sub-lists, parsing addresses, MTAs other than Sendmail, proper bounce processing, users with multiple addresses, database subscriber backends, ticket-based approval, running as a daemon, etc., etc. so investing much more effort in MJ 1.9x is a waste of time. Instead, help out with MJ2: http://www.hpc.uh.edu/majordomo/
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