Hi, On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:03:23PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: [...good suggestions...] > To get onto the whitelist, there are some possibilities, depending on > what's easiest for the list administrators: [...other goo stuff...] > - web-based signup -- enter your email address in a form, and it gets > added to the whitelist. (pros: easy to set up; cons: less automatic) the Debian project has a pseudo-list, where people can subscribe their posting-addresses. Maybe it is a good idea to ask the Debian listmasters, what actions they took against spam. Nearly all their list are open to non-subscribers, too, IIRC. > - confirmation message gets sent to the sender, who must reply within a > fixed time, otherwise the message is dropped. > - the admins could look over the held messages once a day, and whitelist > the real messages. - delay messages with a score lower some amount (maybe 3.0) for some time (e. g. 0.5 - 1 hour), then re-check it (razor, etc. should report it as spam then) and auto-accept if score is the same or less - greylisting > These possibilities are, of course, not exclusive -- the administrators > could implement as many as they can. > > That's my proposal. If this sounds good to everyone else, I'll send > this to Rik. Another thing that might be interesting: I've seen there is a NNTP gateway. Has it been checked whether this is the source of the increased amount of spam? Greetings, Mike - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
