On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Hubert Chan wrote: > What I'm proposing is that messages that meet any of the following > criteria are accepted: > > - messages from subscribers > - messages from whitelisted people Would it be acceptable to have a "self whitelisting" system here - ie. a "mailing list" that people can subscribe to, but not post to, and subscribers from that silent list would be allowed to post to the linux-crypto list ? Something like that can be implemented in minutes, using the software that is already installed. > - PGP/GPG-signed messages (if spammers start signing their messages, > this can be made more strict -- e.g. signed messages with public key > on a keyserver, etc.) > - replies to messages that already got through (checked via the > References/In-Reply-To header) These two will be a bit harder, since ecartis only has a blacklisting mechanism, but not a whitelisting one. > - messages with a low SpamAssassin (or other spam filtering software) > score This would let through a lot of the 419 mails, which seem to be the bulk of the spam making it through the filters currently. Are you sure you want this ? > Everything else is either rejected, or held for further approval by the > administrators (depending on how much work this would create for the > administrators). Any volunteers ? kind regards, Rik van Riel -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
