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[Mark Weisler]

On Friday 20 February 2009 12:02:26 Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Fife (AFife at untangle.com):
> > Peter Blair (pblair at rincontechnology.com) wrote:
> >> Will do, I did not realize this was a distribution list.  My apologies.
>
> Not intended as criticism of any party, but just as background
> explanation:
>
> All SVLUG mailing lists (including Volunteers) except for the Jobs
> mailing list are set up as unmoderated for postings sent from subscribed
> addresses.  Non-subscribed-sender postings get intercepted and held
> for listadmin approval, and there are also a few other filters to
> intercept categories of postings that are likely to be inappropriate,
> such as those Bcc'd ("implicitly addressed") to the list address, and
> those with too many addressees in the To and/or Cc fields.  Intercepted
> posts stay in an admin queue until approve, rejected, or discarded --
> and there's a timeout of (I think) three days after which they're
> discarded if not acted on.
>
> The Jobs mailing list is a special case, because of the extreme
> likelihood of abuse if it's not closely managed -- so it's (uniquely)
> set up as a completely moderated mailing list:  Each and every posting,
> whether from a subscribed address or not, must be approved by the
> listadmin.  Otherwise, the post continues to be held in the admin queue
> for three days, and then expires and is discarded.
>
> By the way, at any given time, the contents of all of the mailing lists'
> admin queues consists overwhelmingly of spam sent from non-subscribed
> (and most often forged) sender addresses.  That is part of the reason
> that the admin queues have a three-day timeout:  The queue prunes itself
> out, automatically.
Hear, hear! I can corroborate Rick's account of spam. When Rick went on 
vacation last fall I administered the incoming messages requiring attention 
and we get several spam items/day. Seemed like some days there were ten or 
twelve and they do at least need to be viewed quickly so that we don't throw 
away someone's sincere and genuine message. It takes time to do it.

So thanks Rick for screening the mail for us.

-- 
Mark Weisler   PGP: 0x68E462B6  http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/
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