[Biojava-l] spam to biojava-l

[Schreiber, Mark]

I'd favour biojava-l not been moderated just yet, although any more spam
and I'll change my mind.

I don't see any reason why biojava-dev shouldn't be members only as it
should only be interesting to members.

- Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Pocock [mailto:matthew_pocock@yahoo.co.uk] 
> Sent: Friday, 22 November 2002 1:48 a.m.
> To: chris dagdigian; Schreiber, Mark
> Cc: BIOJAVA-L@biojava.org
> Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] spam to biojava-l
> 
> 
> 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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