[Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

Oleg D. perl at ipchains.ru
Wed Aug 23 14:49:27 CEST 2006


Matt England wrote:

> At 8/23/2006 06:43 AM, Oleg D. wrote:
>
>>> This is the best email I have yet to find describing how 
>>> mail.python.org proactive kills spam:
>>>
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html
>>>
>>> I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not 
>>> be implicit in the above description) to combat spam:
>>>
>>> * Don't allow email from non-subscribers
>>> * Moderate email from new subscribers some period of time (probably 
>>> a day to a week)
>>>
>>> Does mail.python.org do either or these things and/or is this 
>>> generally a good practice?
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Good practice is to filter spam with MTA. Not with mailman even.
>> -- 
>> Oleg D.
>
>
> Is that not what this link (mentioned above) states?
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html
>
> -Matt

Exactly that is. :-)

-- 
Oleg D.

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