Currently the libtool mailing lists employ first-post moderation for nonmembers. When such a moderation request occurs, the list software sends a message to the poster that her message is being held back for moderation.
For genuine posters, this may be helpful: they are informed about what happens, and thus usually either wait for someone to moderate, or they cancel their post, subscribe, and repost so that the message appears immediately. However, this generates backscatter for all the spam that hits the lists, quite a bit. Some blacklisting services generate fake spam to catch such backscatter, and may put the list server in the blacklist based on this, I believe. Which is bad for all GNU lists.[1] I have disabled the held-for-approval messages for now. Any objections against this step? (For list moderators, the setting is found here: [General options] [respond_to_post_requests]). Cheers, Ralf [1] Just listed in Sorbs again. :-( _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
