[Zope] Re: Restricting Posts to Subscribers

[Nick Bower]

What about us GMane users?  This method of participation is actually 
reccommended as perferred for all Plone lists. And no wonder imho - news 
is far superior to mail for participating in high traffic forums!

Other posters have raised similar concerns.

Unrelated - have you tried grey-listing also?

http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/


Andrew Sawyers wrote:
> A similar discussion is taking place on zope-dev and I'd like to bring 
> that here as well.  I'd like to propose that we change the Mailman 
> policy for this list to restrict posting to subscribers only.  I'm sure 
> others will agree and others will not.   Some of the recent issues I've 
> seen are:
> A) I can't stop some logical extensions (.zip) which are now containing 
> virus' from getting to the list without causing problems for those who 
> are possibly attaching valid attachments
> B) We can't stop all spam - we're using 3 rbl lists to stop as much as 
> we can; that is not good enough IMNSHO
> C) We can stop outside mailers from replying to the list illogically
> My vote is for refusing posts from non-subscriber emails.
> 
> Let the beatings begin.
> Andrew
>