[Mailman-Developers] Google Summer of Code - Spam Defense

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>>> Unfortunately, tuning list settings that have to do with filtering  
>>> is
>>> not and never really was something that you want people who have  
>>> never
>>> even set up an MTA to do.  Understanding what happens is quite
>>> complex.
>>
>> The solution in Mailman 3 will be to allow for defining named styles.
>
> That's half the solution.  The other half is providing means and
> encouragement for good ones to end up in a contrib directory. :-)

Or the Cheeseshop.  At least the /intent/ is that third party packages/ 
eggs could be installed that provide entry points for the plugins that  
Mailman defines.  If that doesn't work in practice then we need to bug  
the distutils folks or find another solution.  I really want to  
encourage a rich ecosystem of add-ons that don't need to be officially  
supported or even acknowledged by the core team.  The core should be  
concentrating on the core functionality and providing a robust  
framework with useful plug points.

>> A style is simply a collection of some subset of all the  
>> configuration
>> variables on a mailing list.
>
> And these cascade, right?

They can, other than that I haven't written the code yet. ;)

- -Barry

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