Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote in news:200305210012.02343.brion@pobox.com:
Some of the mailing lists are getting, and their admins regularly rejecting, a fair amount of spam.
I'm going to see if I can get SpamAssassin set up to cull some of the more wretchedly obvious stuff out before it gets to mailman.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I am list admin of Wikitech-l and Intlwiki-l. Since the removal of the @nupedia.com forwards my lits do not recieve a lot of spam anymore.
Mostly there are to types of postings;
- a list member who has used a emailadres where he is not subcribed whit. action: approve posting and inform the user that he used the wrong email adres and add that emailadres to the list of allowed posters.
- a non-list member who wants to ask something. action: until now I approve it and send the poster a email to inform them how to subcribe.
Problem; if the do not subcribe the do not recieve a responds. I think posters only wants to ask something and not understand the idea of a mailing list.
Is it better to reject the posting and inform them the have to subcribe? The can see it like a insult if you reject.
The posting can come from a non-wikipedian who only wants to send a email to "wikipedia".
So far a know only the german and dutch wikipedia has a emailadres where visitors can send a question to.