Re: [Usability] Recent spam increase

[Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>]

Hi.


> http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability/ says "Usability list
> run by anna ximian com" so it appears Anna is the list administrator.
> Perhaps she just hasn't looked at this issue yet.

Indeed.


> As Havoc said, the common way of gnome.org mailing lists these days is
> to have them subscribers-only, i.e. only subscribers can post without
> being moderated, in order to prevent spam coming to list subscribers. An
> exception is the post-only list
> (http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/post-only/) whose subscribers
> can post to all gnome.org mailing lists (that are configured to allow
> that) without being subscribed to the individual lists. This is a
> convenience hack so that people can post from several e-mail addresses,
> etc, without being moderated.

This is how usability@ used to work. The policy was changed (after a bit
of discussion on this list) because people were not at all good about
a)subscribing to the list before posting to it, and b) posting from the
address that they'd subscribed with. Hence, I was spending *a lot* of
time approving valid posts. Now then-- this is the first I've ever heard
of the post-only list, so perhaps using this would significantly cut
down on the time required to maintain the list. That would be great.

>  Anna, is this ok with you? 

Bleh. Obviously I don't want subscribers to usability@ to get a lot of
spam from the list. However, I need to spend time manually approving
valid posts to the list like a I need a hole in the head. I would be
much more willing to make this change if anyone else were offering to
help maintain the list. Hint, hint.

Thanks.
Anna


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Anna Marie Dirks <anna ximian com>