Anti-spam methods (was: Re: [SLL] this list losing mail?)

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>On 7/27/07, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
...
>> We are talking about a subscriber-only mailing list. If a person is
>> subscribed then their emails to the mailing list should not be quarantined
>> where they can be overlooked and lost within other spam. I'd prefer a
>> bounce so I would know my email was lost instead of waiting and realizing
>> it never showed up.
>>
...
>However, is it possible that it would be useful if it were a moderated
>list, with the moderator getting the reminders?

Moderating the list wouldn't do any good in this case as the messges were
dropped by an external MX server before they ever arrived at the list
server.

We host a fair number of mailing lists using Mailman, and only one is
moderated, a list for monthly announcements.  The rest are unmoderated for
subscribers, and only forward moderation requests to the list owner(s) if
the messages are sent by non-members, or have a spamassassin score greater
than a specified threshhold.  Anything with an SA score above 5.00 and
under 10.00 is sent to the list owner(s), with 10.00 and higher discarded
without notice.  These scores are configurable.

Bill
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