[ZWeb] Filtering spam from the zope lists

[Andy McKay]

I know you use mailman (which uses qmail), but we use sendmail somewhere in
our mail system along with mailman(a sys admin could explain where) so that
we can use PerlMx to filter out spam. Just a plug for our product thats
all... :)
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Burleigh" <mattb@digicool.com>
To: "Ken Manheimer" <klm@digicool.com>
Cc: "Andrew Sawyers" <andrew@digicool.com>; <zope-web@zope.org>;
<sa@digicool.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [ZWeb] Filtering spam from the zope lists


>
>  Spam fighting is on our radars for internal mailing lists and Zope
> mailing lists. We have got to some infrastructure issues finished first.
>
> Ken Manheimer wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
> >
> > > I think it's one alternative; the other being someway to refuse
accepting
> > > mail from known relay/spam sites.  I don't know the workings of our
list
> > > system, but it shouldn't be tough to do this, either in the
mailhandler
> > > (i.e. postfix) or the listmanager (MailMan).  I know when I would
admin
> > > sites using sendmail, I could setup a hash table of sites I would
refuse
> > > mail from.  This is not the greatest solution, but one which works if
the
> > > relay site or spammer utilizes a host or domain often enough.  It just
seems
> >
> > I think it's a great idea to look at using blacklist filtering - support
> > the fight against spam!  And all mailman versions make it easy to
identify
> > "suspicious" headers, for messages to be held for approval.  I'm all
> > for both of these avenues.  I'd also be interested to see the amount of
> > impedence we'd hit using the restricting-to-members constraint, but
> > suspect it'd require too much admin intervention for even
moderate-traffic
> > lists.
> >
> > Ken
>
> --
> Matt Burleigh
> Systems Administrator, Digital Creations - publishers of Zope.
>
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