Re: Spam in the lists out of control

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Pascal Hakim <pasc@redellipse.net> writes:

> From my personal experience, closing lists results in people not wanting
> to post on them anymore. When I have a look there are a huge number of
> valid messages coming through that are not from people in the whitelist
> or subscribed to the list, whether it is because they read the list on a
> news gateway, or using different emails for receiving mail traffic, and
> for posting.

People who read via the news gateway should also post via the news
gateway, which has its own whitelist.  (This is what I do.)  That
whitelist could be fed into the lists.debian.org whitelist, or the people
on it could be asked to sign up for both.  (I'd be happy to do that.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>