[Biojava-l] spam to biojava-l

[Matthew Pocock]

Let's see what happens over the next week once the
spam filtering is back up. If we're still getting lots
of junk, then I guess we have to go moderated.

On a related note, I would be happy to see biojava-dev
move to a members-only posting system since it is
meant for guts discussions. The web archives mean that
anybody who is interested can still read what was
said. IMHO biojava-l should remain available for
anybody (member or not) to post to, but without the
spam.

What do people think?

Matthew

ps thanks Chris for sorting this

 --- chris dagdigian <dag@sonsorol.org> wrote: > 
> One of our biggest anti-spam tools has been
> unavailable since we moved 
> servers to the new internet connection and lost our
> ability to query the 
> www.mail-abuse.org RBL+ blackhole lists.
> 
> I followed up on my month-old request to have our
> new IP added to the 
> ACL and got a reply back this evening that says we
> should be good to go 
> in about 1 hour.
> 
> mail-abuse.org 's DNS-blackhole lists are used at
> the sendmail SMTP 
> server level and are our first line of spam defense.
> 
> If people are seriously getting annoyed with spam
> one option that 
> biojava-l list members can discuss is the idea of
> making the list 100% 
> moderated (ie all posts must be manually approved).
> The DAS and MOBY 
> people are doing this with good success.
> 
> The problem with that is that we don't have the
> volunteer bandwidth on 
> the O|B|F mailteam to handle moderating biojava all
> by ourselves. We'd 
> need a few biojva-l members to step up and volunteer
> their services as 
> list moderators.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> part of the root-l@bioperl.org OBF sysadmin cabal :)
> 
> 
> 
> Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> > Mmmm, who needs biojava when you can have half
> price steak ;-)
> > 
> > Seriously though, are we using the open-bio email
> filters? We seem to
> > get lots of spam that's not sneaking onto the
> other lists.
> > 
> > <grrrr/>
> > - Mark
> >
>
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