Re: Please stop spam in address@hidden mailing list

[Håkon Løvdal]

On 1/30/06, Andrew Gaffney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
> > Please stop spam in address@hidden mailing list
> >
> > Now it's very hard to read archives, look for eample at
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2006-01/threads.html
>
> Don't you think that if it was easy that it would have been done already? The
> only real way to stop the spam is to make it a subscriber-post-only list, 
> which
> make it useless for bug reports. Many people won't subscribe just to submit a
> bug report.

I was able to find the following couple of references to integrating
spam handling into mailman. So it appears to be fully possible (although
I can by no means can promise that it is easy since I have no experience).

  Integrating SpamAssassin with Mailman
  http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/

  4.23. How do I use SpamAssassin with Mailman?
  http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.23


  Mailman Mailing List Hacks
  http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=373342&rl=1

  Removing spam from Mailman's queue
  http://mg.pov.lt/blog/mailman-spam.html

Please consider doing something about spam on the list.
I consider it to be a big problem.

BR Håkon Løvdal