Does anyone here have experience with the spam control at Open Source Labs? In 
our experience mailman isn't workable with lots of spam ending up in the 
moderation queues - the UI isn't made for that.

And thanks for the OSL reminder - they've been on our mind before.

-hilmar

Sent with a tap.

On Oct 26, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@postgresql.org> wrote:

> On 10/26/12 6:45 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>> Apologies for the silence. To not leave this hanging, I'm in full agreement 
>> with the argument of preferring open-source software when there is a choice 
>> to be made. Though in fairness, Google invests a fair amount of money into 
>> open-source, and so using Google products isn't exactly inconsistent (IMHO) 
>> with an open source commitment.
>> 
>> At any rate, what prompted the query to start with is that OBF runs mailman 
>> lists (and MediaWiki wikis, but Google Apps wouldn't do anything about 
>> those) on hardware and OS versions that are highly outdated and thus cause 
>> pain and vulnerability. Also, we receive a lot of spam. Keeping on top of 
>> that through moderation, even with spamassassin and stuff, has been too 
>> painful for a while, so we're looking for alternatives. Google Apps 
>> obviously isn't a solve all for this, so my query was mostly informational. 
>> So I'm at least as curious about how other SPI projects fill these needs, 
>> and whether SPI runs any infrastructure for common use by its associated 
>> projects. (I realize I should have put that in a new thread.)
> 
> Open Source Labs hosts free mailman lists for open source projects.  I'd
> go there first.
> 
> --Josh Berkus
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