| golinux | LeePen: Someone recently posted to devuan-dev but since he wasn't required to create an account, never saw the reply that was sent to him which created a bit of miscommunication. | 02:11 |
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| golinux | I can't remember how it was set up when I was moderating but DNG is moderated because of some well known trolls and spam that comes in regularly. | 02:13 |
| golinux | It also requires sub with first post landing in moderation and then I can approve the account. | 02:15 |
| golinux | I wonder how many other devs have posted to devuan-dev without an account and never seen the replies if any? | 02:16 |
| golinux | Maybe requiring a subscription to post would be useful for -dev? | 02:18 |
| golinux | (or am I just "fussing" again . . . LOL!) | 02:18 |
| hagbard | I agree with golinux. It's usually useful to set up a mailing list in a way, that only members of the list can post to the list. This avoids spam and saves effort for moderation. | 11:24 |
| rwp | golinux, Is this a web forum or an email mailing list that is under discussion? I assumed it was a web forum. Did I assume wrong? | 18:19 |
| rwp | Unfortunately requiring mailing lists to be subscription to post does not prevent all spam as there are spammers that routinely subscribe before posting to them. | 18:20 |
| rwp | I do strongly recommend that new subscribers be moderated by default. Then they need a human review and approval upon initial contact. That avoids most spam problems. | 18:22 |
| rwp | GNU Mailman very unfortunately has almost no anti-spam capability itself. Sad. I must bolt on an anti-spam cancel-bot to it. | 18:24 |
| rwp | I handle the anti-spam for GNU mailing lists. Some description here https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListHelperAntiSpam/ | 18:24 |
| rwp | It's rather a brute force system. But brute force and ignorance will always triumph over elegance and finesse. | 18:25 |
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