[OT] Spam control

[hammett <ha...@uol.com.br>]

Hi there,

As one of the list moderators, I've been smashed by a huge amount of spam do 
dev, scm and user lists. Is there a way to block those by content, subject, 
sender or something along these lines?

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Cheers,
hammett
http://www.castleproject.org/~hammett



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Re: [OT] Spam control

[hammett <ha...@uol.com.br>]

Nope, afaik Peter is the other one.
It's been a bloody job, I tell you :-)

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Cheers,
hammett
http://www.castleproject.org/~hammett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Aaron Farr" <ja...@gmail.com>


On 6/28/05, hammett <ha...@uol.com.br> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> As one of the list moderators, I've been smashed by a huge amount of spam 
> do
> dev, scm and user lists. Is there a way to block those by content, 
> subject,
> sender or something along these lines?

First off, you might want to ask for some help on the infrastructure
mailing list.  I tend to just use the spam filters in my various mail
clients (Thunderbird or now gmail).

Secondly, are you the only moderator?  Do we need another volunteer or two?




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Re: [OT] Spam control

[Leo Simons <ma...@leosimons.com>]

On 28-06-2005 20:24, "J Aaron Farr" <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/05, hammett <ha...@uol.com.br> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> As one of the list moderators, I've been smashed by a huge amount of spam do
>> dev, scm and user lists. Is there a way to block those by content, subject,
>> sender or something along these lines?
> 
> First off, you might want to ask for some help on the infrastructure
> mailing list.  I tend to just use the spam filters in my various mail
> clients (Thunderbird or now gmail).
> 
> Secondly, are you the only moderator?  Do we need another volunteer or two?

I'm a moderator too for excalibur and several other lists. I'm consistently
100-1000 messages behind these days (I shift through it roughly once every 2
days). Which means I hardly get to actually do moderation for excalibur as
hammett and peter are a lot faster :-)

At some point I had procmail configured to strip out the attachment
(moderate messages are multipart/mixed) and feed that through spamassassin.
That broke and I never fixed it.

There's a mailing list for asf moderators, asf-moderators at Apache-Server
dot Com, which is mostly unused but probably a good information source on
how to improve moderation throughput. I think some people have customized
mutt or pine installs where they just hit one out of three keys a whole lot
in a row for one of the four actions (_A_pprove, approve _P_oster, _I_gnore,
_R_eject).

Cheers,

LSD



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Re: [OT] Spam control

[J Aaron Farr <ja...@gmail.com>]

On 6/28/05, hammett <ha...@uol.com.br> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> As one of the list moderators, I've been smashed by a huge amount of spam do
> dev, scm and user lists. Is there a way to block those by content, subject,
> sender or something along these lines?

First off, you might want to ask for some help on the infrastructure
mailing list.  I tend to just use the spam filters in my various mail
clients (Thunderbird or now gmail).

Secondly, are you the only moderator?  Do we need another volunteer or two?

-- 
  jaaron

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