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[James Freeman]

Hi Chris,

If they take the DAS route, members only, with non member mail being 
cleared by a several volunteer spam filters (I am one of four volunteers 
for DAS).  The spam goes to nothing, I can't block a valid mail without 
all the other mail admins knowing about it.  A couple of minutes a day 
is all that is needed.  The DAS lists spam has dropped to nothing since 
then, and I have sent through several pieces of relevant non-member 
mail.  So if they do that sign me up.

Warmest Regards,

Jim Freeman
Bioinformatics Consultant At Biogen


Chris Dagdigian wrote:

>
> These complaints should have been sent to the OBF sysadmin team 
> (root-l@bioperl.org) so we could have responded. I can't subsribe to 
> every one of our 35+ lists you know :)
>
> I've set up more restrictive anti-spam rules within Mailman for both 
> the bioperl and biojava mailing lists. The lists still allow outsiders 
> to post but we hold-for-moderation all emails that are not 
> mime-encoded as text/plain and any emails that include attachments. 
> This works very well but places an administrative burden on our 
> volunteer mailing list moderators.
>
> The BioMoby list has taken this even futher-- they have elected to 
> close the list to outside posters -- all posts from non-members are 
> held for moderation and the moby list members have stepped forward to 
> handle the moderation tasks.
>
> We also subscribe on a server level to the http:///mail-abuse.org RBL+ 
> blackhole list which allows us to refuse inbound SMTP connections from 
> IP addresses of known spammers or open relays. Sadly this filter has 
> not worked since we changed IP addresses a few weeks ago. We have an 
> open ticket in with mail-abuse.org to update their databse with our 
> new IP.
>
> So- please discuss amongst yourselves what additional steps you'd like 
> to take. I'd recommend trying to block all attachments and 
> non-plaintext emails before  taking the more drastic step of taking 
> the list private. It would also help greatly if there were a member or 
> two on this list who would volunteer to join our mailteam to help with 
> the increased moderation duties.
>
> Regarding jitterbug -- you can elect to disable the email-based bug 
> reporting or you can switch to Bugzilla as bioperl did. In fact I 
> think Jeff has already set up bugzilla for biopython?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
> Open-Bio.org
>
>
>
> Danny Yoo wrote:
>
>> On 22 Oct 2002, David A. Jewell wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Dr. Singh sentiments are my own and I would very much appreciate 
>>> efforts
>>> in securing the Bio-python server from what appears to be frequent
>>> hacks.
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> How about if the biopython lists are restricted so that only subscribers
>> can post?  This is the approach that many other Mailman mailing lists 
>> have
>> taken to prevent junk mail from flooding the list.
>>
>> It's also extraordinarily disheartening when there's more spam than 
>> actual
>> bug reports in Jitterbug; I personally almost despise getting mail from
>> biopython-dev simply because it's spam for the most part!
>>
>>
>> The mailing lists on mail.python.org also have a spam filter that 
>> seems to
>> be fairly effective.  Someone may want to contact the mail.python.org
>> administrator and see if a similar system can be set up for 
>> Biopython.org.
>>  
>>
>
>
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