[Zope.Com Geeks] Re: [Zope-dev] zope-dev list policies

[Andrew Sawyers]

Ken Manheimer wrote:

> What proportion of the list traffic comes from valid members who are 
> posting from alternate accounts?

A huge percentage was - I don't know how much is making it through to 
the lists though.  I'm hearing a lot of complaints from people either 
third party, seeing it in IRC or from emails off the lists.

I've recently added an increased amount of header and body checks which 
were not being applied yesterday as well as increased spam reject 
features.  This should help - in any event now that it's being blocked 
at the MTA, Mailman's load on the server has went from 2 -3 to ~.5 on 
the server in the last hour.
Andrew

>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
>
>> Ken Manheimer wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed this when it went initially went by, but didn't have time 
>>> to follow up.  The upshot is that there is absolutely no way *under 
>>> the current arrangement* that this is going to happen.  I can see a 
>>> way to swing it, requiring earnest volunteer effort.  Here are the 
>>> details.
>>>
>>> Being the administrator of many of the zope lists (probably over ten 
>>> and below twenty), i am already dismayed by the challenge of the 
>>> typically thirty to one hundred held spam messages, bounces, and 
>>> other effluvia i have to handle *per day*.  I do not know how many 
>>> of the legitimate list messages would additionally be held and 
>>> require more attention (with the current mailman implementation, it 
>>> takes a lot more fuss to approve a held message than to discard it), 
>>> but the load is already untenable, so one more is too many.
>>>
>> Why would we hold non-member postings for review?  Why not simply 
>> outright reject them?
>


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