On 17/01/11 09:11, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 08:09 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >> Whats being done to prevent spam on the mailing lists? > > We've added the list address to CyberPromo's award winning mailing > list ;-) > > I guess - the thing that is blocking spam, is the presence of a set of > list moderators with lots of time, willing to sift and/or approve > legitimate mail from illegitimate mail quickly (ie. within an hour or > so), and reliably (ie. all week around).
If we're happier with a slower turnaround for newbies (though I'd rather strong filtering at the server :-) > > It could be you ! :-) do you volunteer ? [ oh, and of course since > Thorsten / Kendy are admins you'd want to persuade them - I tried, but > failed so far ;-]. > Some lists separate posting rights and signing up. Newbies get their first few posts moderated ... If we go down that route, we might implement (but don't tell anyone) that newbies are automatically given mailing rights after a few days. (Just don't have the system auto-approve someone while they've got mail in the queue.) While people may not be happy, I'm sure most people (devs especially) will accept that if they've just signed up and suffer a few initial hiccups because of spam, that's life :-( Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
