New Mailing List - Too much spam



Stavros Macrakis writes:
 > > I thought there was a way of forbidding posting to the list 
 > > except if the sender was a member of the list.
 > 
 > I agree.  But as someone pointed out, we do regularly get new users with
 > queries about Maxima, and we don't want to discourage them.
 > 
 > I don't know what mailing list software is currently being used (and
 > apparently it is hard to administer because it is at Utexas), but it
 > should be possible to have a compromise policy: registered users can
 > post without moderation, but mail from unregistered people gets
 > moderated.

 The list server is 'mailman'. It NOW does exactly what you
 said. list members can post freely, non-member posters get
 moderated. 

 Is there anyone interested in running the list? 

 Maorong Zou

 >  Surely that is a standard policy setting for *some* mailing
 > list software.  Now it's just a "small matter of implementation".
 > 
 >         -s
 > 
 > PS As it happens, I have seen zero spam from the Maxima list recently.
 > (Though there was some a couple of months ago.)  Perhaps my ISP's spam
 > filter is effective?
 > 
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