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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

I believe that the spam you see comes from lists themselves, gmane just 
relays it. I posted through gmane many times and I think its defenses are 
adequate.

Gmane doesn't have subscription info, so of course it's going to come through 
mailman.

Sergey.

-----Original Message-----
   >> I believe we should make the posting permissions through gmane
   >> "Non-Public", which means posting through gmane is only allowed for list
   >> members.
   >
   >Our lists get some spam, which is blocked by our handy moderaters and
   >requiring clearance to post. I'm not sure how well gmane would block
   >spammers (I see craploads of spam on other MLs that are opened via
   >gmane (e.g. the GNU/HURD mailing lists, the pkg-config lists, etc.)
   >and would not like to see our lists spammed that way. Perhaps if gmane
   >goes through mailman when it posts (e.g. if someone posts through
   >gmane it still goes through the regular mailman channels then we can
   >still block/authorize at that level) then I think we could make it
   >public.