On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:40:56 +0200 Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> > wrote: > >> fc: >> > >> > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? >> >> You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list >> masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 >> Debian lists¹ with thousands of posts each day. >> >> > I see these types of things come through periodically -- and 1 >> > delete on the front end could prevent a lot of woe. >> >> Your help is appreciated: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam >> >> Obviously, this only affects the archive after all subscribers already >> received the spam message. Moderating all Debian lists is not a job >> that anybody wants to do (and it wouldn't even be appreciated). >> >> > *Even more so* -- it seems like unauthorized users can email this >> > list? >> > >> > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? >> >> Because this excludes use cases that are deemed valid by the list >> masters. > > Like what? > > Why not this: To post or reply to the list, you must be > a subscriber; but to read/browse (even search archives, etc.), you > do not. This is the way most of the lists I've been involved with have > been set up. Works quite well controlling spurious posting by 'bots. > One list I used required annual renewal..
How do you limit posts to subscribers? Login? Subscriber list? What happens when you need an answer, but you don't have access to a functional machine that you can trust? Also, I think there is a web forum that functions more or less as you describe: http://forums.debian.net/ -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a novelist: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2017/01/soc500-00-00-toc.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
