On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Brian J Mingus > <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: >> Moderating this stuff requires moderating all messages. > > Not quite. GNU Mailman comes with nice features to ease this task. You > can configure it so that everyone who is currently subscribed can post > freely, but new subscribers get a "moderated" bit set on them. The > first time this new subscriber attempts to post to the list, a human > moderator has to inspect their message and decide whether to approve > it or deny it. If they human moderator approves it, they can also on > the same web form remove the "moderated" bit from that poster. > > Therefore, the volunteer work required would be inspecting the *first* > post from each *new* subscriber to see if that post is spam. > > Regards, > > Zooko
The spam isn't coming through the mailing list. It's coming through the Google Groups mirror of the Usenet newsgroup. I don't think Mailman can do anything about that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
