[alicebot-archcomm] Mailman and spam

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

One thing that is starting to bother me about these mailman mailing lists
is the administrative overhead generated by the rising amount of spam.

As list administrator, I get daily emails telling me how many messages
have been blocked from each list, including alicebot-archcomm, pending
administrative approval.

Today for example there were 104 pending messages to alicebot-archcomm,
all posts by non-members, all spam.

The web-based mailman interface is slow and requires scrolling through the
list of messages and clicking a "Reject" radio button for each message.

That was a ratio of 104:0 of spam to ham accumulated over a 1 week period.
 Similar comments apply to alicebot-aiethics, alicebot-patterns, etc.

I don't mind doing the work for alicebot-foundation, the list people pay
to subscribe to, but it is becoming a chore as the general amount of spam
increases and the ham decreases to lists like -aiethics.

Not that I want to discontinue these lists.  Perhaps there is a technical
solution.  I am sure we are not the only ones out there in mailman land
facing the same problem.  I have often wondered why the interface doesn't
have a "Reject All" option.  Maybe there is a way to do it from the shell.
 Maybe there is a newer release of mailman I don't know about.

Maybe we could all get busy posting ham to this and other lists so I don't
feel so bad about spending time deleting the ham...

Thanks for listening.


-- 
Dr. Rich
W A L L A C E
ALICE A.I. Foundation
drwallace@www.alicebot.org
"Dean of cheezo-hobby system hackers."--Salon