Volunteer to moderate bug-gdb mailing list

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Hello,

The bug-gdb mailing list is drenched in spam.  About 90% of the
messages in the 2002-December and 2002-November archives are spam.

I would like to volunteer to administer the bug-gdb mailing list
and filter the spam.

This is a Mailman list.  I'm one of the administrators of
address@hidden, another Mailman list.  We found that
it was easy and effective to anti-spam our list by:

  . holding all posts from non-subscribers for approval
  . distributing all posts from subscribers
  . adding about three dozen well-known non-subscribers to a whitelist
    (if we see someone regularly respond to posts which are sent to
    kbuild-devel + other places, and they are not a subscriber,
    we just whitelist them).

The downside is that some legitimate posts are held for approval
for many hours / 1-2 days.  You can mitigate this by having several
administrators with approval authority.  Right now, I suspect that many
gdb maintainers do not even bother reading bug-gdb at all because of
the high spam content.

Affiliations: I am a gdb contributer and have a current FSF assignment on
file for gdb and other projects.  I am a former employee of Red Hat.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain