Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Pascal Hakim wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:21:47AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>   
> > John Hasler wrote:
> >     
> > > raju writes:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Is there anything that can be done with lists.debian.org that cannot be
> > > > done through google groups?
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > Is there anything that can be done with google groups that cannot be
> > > done through lists.debian.org?
> > >  
> > >       
> > Can be done - no.
> > Will be done - yes.
> >
> > 1) In google groups, we can set 'only members can post' option. This can 
> > be done with lists.debian.org as well. But listsmasters' decision is to 
> > not do it.
> >     
>
> This hasn't been done as we want people to be able to contribute as
> easily as possible. Emails that come from non-subscribers are placed
> through an extra spam check (the one we call crossassassin), which is
> actually quite effective. It's stopped 590 spam emails from being
> posted in the 65 hours.
>   
Is the crossassassin something specific to d-u or is it used for all the 
lists on lists.debian.org? I ask because, some lists like debian-www 
receive much more spam from non-subscribers than the amount of 
"non-subscriber spam" received by d-u.

thanks
raju

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