I'd vote against moderation. For my money, our spam levels are quite low - I would hazard a totally off-the-cuff value of less than 10%. Why mess with something when it isn't (seriously) broken? It's just these temporary Klez-type breakouts that have caused this problem.
-Ashok
On Mon, 13 May 2002 08:47:06 -0500 (CDT)
Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>
> > 'closing' the lists does not mean that someone not being subscribed can't
> > send e-mail to the list. It means that a moderator has to approve such
> > postings.
> >
> > So they are still open to all, only some postings have to be approved.
> >
> > I'm running an e-mail list like this and all spam has been blocked
> > easily. It
> > only needs a moderator...
> >
> > I would prefer if the ethereal lists are run this way. It means that
> > they are
> > open and (almost) spam free.
>
> Are you the only moderator, or do you share the duty with others? This
> sounds like a good solution, but I'm concerned that posts requiring
> approval would be delayed significantly. I'm currently the only
> administrator for most of the Ethereal lists, and it sometimes takes a few
> days for me to process administrative requests.
>
> I'll go ahead and set -dev, -users and -doc to members-only posting.
> Would anyone like to volunteer to help with moderation?
>
>
> >
> > Best regards
> > Michael
> >
> > On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:20:17PM -0500, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> > >> Is there some reason that the ethereal lists are still all open? At
> > >> least the ethereal-dev one?
> > >
> > > IMHO, the openness of the Ethereal mailing lists has been a very good
> > > thing: It is used for support (ideally ethereal-users, but ethereal-dev
> > > too), and it makes it easier for "outsiders" to submit patches or ask
> > > question that may lead to patches.
> > > Maybe some tuning of the current mailscanner to actually detect the Klez
> > > virus would be sufficient. That way, most spam/virii is marked and you
> > > can drop it via your procmailrc (or whatever you are using instead).
> > >
> > > Ciao
> > > Jörg
> > > --
> > > Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> > > what proactive means.
> > >
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