[Eg-oversight-board] Oversight Board Discussion List - Decision Needed

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On May 16, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Steve Wills wrote:
> I just joined the mailman developers mailing list as well in hope of learning more about how we can implement more automatic ways of scrubbing the mailing list clean of spammers.  
> There are spammers who are smart enough to make it past mailman's stock email validation scheme I'm sure.  
> That said, we don't seem to have too many problems on our lists, perhaps they are too specialized for most coupon pushers?

Coupons for free software? :)

> I'm sure Chris and Galen are way ahead of me technically on this point but more eyes is always good. 

It's also my impression that to date we have not had a spam problem on the mailing lists, but should one arise, there are indeed various options available for automatic filtering.

Regards,

Galen
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