[Mailman-Developers] Spam/Scam button

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:26 PM -0500 2005-12-14, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  While in general I think the mailing list is a lousy place to do spam
>  removal (it is better done upstream of the MLM), I do think we could add
>  some useful controls to help here.

	I can certainly see the advantage in allowing Mailman to take 
advantage of additional information placed within the headers of the 
message by the anti-spam processing system (improved in 2.1.6 over 
previous versions).  And I can see the usefulness of having a 
"discard and report as spam" option for list owners and moderators, 
as mentioned by Dale -- basically, just forward the message to a 
pre-configured e-mail address.

	However, I would seriously question the usefulness of trying to 
integrate a full-blown anti-spam system into Mailman (e.g., 
SpamBayes).  IMO, that kind of thing needs to be integrated into the 
MTA, not Mailman.


	My bigger concern here is that people understand who sees this 
"discard as spam" button, and how it works.  This is not something 
that would be exposed or otherwise available to the regular mailing 
list recipients, and I believe that it will be important to manage 
user expectations in this respect.

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