Hi,
I know bad-relays@ is more exposed to spam because it does not require subscription for obvious reasons, but would it be possible to reduce the amount of spam on that mailing list by sending potential spam candidates to the moderation queue?
thanks, nusenu
Hi nusenu. David is listed as the maintainer of bad-relays@ [1] so this is a question for him. Generally speaking the choice is simply: should all new senders go to a moderation queue or not. Advantage of moderation is no spam, but disadvantage is more work for David. We have very few moderated lists for this reason. It works for tor-project@ because Roger, Moritz, and I stay on top of it but if you don't have moderators looking at the queue almost daily doing so will be painful.
Cheers! -Damian
[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/emailLists#AdministrativeL...
Damian Johnson:
Hi nusenu. David is listed as the maintainer of bad-relays@ [1] so this is a question for him.
I did not send it to him only because I assumed that there are some improvement options that do not rely on the moderator only (mailserver).
Generally speaking the choice is simply: should all new senders go to a moderation queue or not.
I believe there are more options than that.
https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/its/help/its-help-email/mailmanspam.aspx https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%202.1%20List%20Administrators%20Manual#Sen...
You could * whitelist all email addresses that are subscribed to any lists.tpo list * tell mailman about spam headers (if you have any) * moderate the rest that never send a valid email to the list
From looking at the past emails I expect that the average moderated/delayed valid email will be <=1 per month while ~15 spam emails per month would not reach the list.
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