[Openal] Newsgroup / forum

[Peter Strempel]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:19 AM, Garin Hiebert wrote:

> Just an FYI on the subject of list spam -- we actually get a lot more 
> spam (by about 4/1) than legitimate traffic on our mailing lists.  I 
> deal with it by manually approving/deleting each message which is sent 
> to the list by a non-list member.

Hmm yes, I was expressing myself not very well. I didn't mean "don't 
get spam" but "easier to handle spam" if you are willing to set some 
drastic configuration. I run a very low traffic list on freelists.org 
which has roughly 1 post per week and had 10-20 spam mails per day. At 
some point I just configured the list so that posts by non-subscribers 
are by default refused, so I don't see them at all. As result, the list 
is 100% spam free now. This doesn't work on usenet (hate to say it, 
basically I really like usenet).

Refusing posts by non-subscribed users might not  be possible for every 
list, I suppose. However, I personally don't see why subscribing and a 
bit later unsubscribing again after your question was answered and you 
find the list boring otherwise is so much of a problem. Users expect a 
mailing list to be spam-clean but then are not willing to invest some 
seconds to sign up first. Makes no sense to me.

> If anyone has suggestions on other software I should look at, feel 
> free to give me suggestions

Ecartis (http://www.ecartis.org/) seems to be quite okay, from what I 
heard. I never set it up myself, so I can just spread some hear-say.


  Peter