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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • To: <eric AT sandall.us>, <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Adding SM mailing lists to GMane
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:26:41 -0400

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.






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