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

[Timo Wingender]

Terri Oda schrieb:
> On 27-Mar-08, at 12:35 PM, Jason Pruim wrote:
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>> One thing that I've been thinking about in regards to this... Is this
>> job the responsibility of mailman? To scan for spam and other such
>> things?
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>> I do all of my scanning at the front end, all e-mail gets run through
>> ASSP to scan blacklists, grey list, etc. etc. then it goes to the MTA,
>> which in my case just verifies the account exists (Or an alias for it
>> does) and then is delivered to mailman for delivery...
>>
>> Why not run something like that instead of checking for all that stuff
>> just before the delivery?
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> Even if it's not Mailman's responsibility to do the scanning, it can  
> be incredibly helpful to make the mailman interface aware of and able  
> to interact with scanning technologies.  ie - using messages  
> discarded as spam for retraining the system, letting list admins  
> customize the behaviour for some lists (or -owner addresses) based on  
> lower or higher threshold values than the server itself uses, maybe  
> having a way to "discard this spam for all lists" or "flag this as  
> spam for other list admins" in the case of messages being sent to  
> multiple lists at once...
>   
That's exactly my intention.

interaction between list is an good idea. But I think relative difficult 
to implement. 
>   Terri
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