From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 06:36:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FC71065676 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:36:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFDB8FC20 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:36:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so533025anc.13 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.171.10 with SMTP id t10mr10431908ane.100.1205131003920; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.8.6 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:36:43 -0800 From: "Peter Wemm" To: "Mike Lempriere" In-Reply-To: <47D4BEC1.5000704@vintners.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000e0cd28bfc044804ee5227d22ecd@google.com> <47D4BEC1.5000704@vintners.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: list spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:36:45 -0000 On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mike Lempriere wrote: > I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating > this list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post? I for one would like this too. On one hand, it is inconvenient for people with multiple email addresses, but there is an easy way around that. What you do is subscribe twice, and go to the options page and turn off email for one of them. That way you can (for example) email with your normal address and receive email from the list on unique addresses for sorting or whatever. We do this on other lists for freebsd.org. However, we need to have mailman be a little smarter about it. Right now, it holds the messages for moderation. Instead, it needs to immediately bounce the email with instructions about what to do. Otherwise we have the situation where somebody emails and gets i the queue, then sends with the right address and it goes through. Later on, the message is approved and we get a duplicate on the list. -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell