On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Carl D Cravens (Mod) wrote:

Worth noting that we're not greylisting anything but personal addresses at this point... no mailing list stuff, and we'll probably never greylist on those.

Right. The mailing lists themselves (vs. things like their signup addresses, which need to get mail from "strangers") are pretty much black and white - if we don't recognize your address, you don't get to post, period. The only change we're going to there is making sure posts from legit users with new addresses get properly bounced so they know what's happening.

That will be slightly different for web participants, who will be able to use "lazy registration" to sign up while making their first post. Current moderators can attest to the evolution of our comment-spam filtering process, which is steadily improving. (Obligatory gripe: it's still a technological solution to what's at root a social/legal problem.)