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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Sat

Jul 5
2003

01:18Z

MGR: Moderation change

y way of combatting the spam that's coming through (even past
SpamAssassin), we're moving to a slightly stricter posting method.

Mail that comes in from non-subscribers won't even be a candidate for
moderation.  If it smells like spam, it'll get silently discarded (which
has already been happening, to SpamAssassin's best ability), and if it
doesn't, it still will only get returned to sender (text intact).

There's really no excuse for people to post from addresses that aren't at
least listed as alternates (and the refusal message has always told them
where to go to get addresses listed), so it shouldn't cause legitimate
members any hardship.


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RobertKnop
Robert A. Knop Jr.

Sat

Jul 5
2003

01:42Z

MGR: Moderation change

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:18:38PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> y way of combatting the spam that's coming through (even past
> SpamAssassin), we're moving to a slightly stricter posting method.

Is this for the managers' list, or for all lists?

-Rob
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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Sat

Jul 5
2003

01:46Z

MGR: Moderation change

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:

RAKJ>Is this for the managers' list, or for all lists?

Sitewide.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Wed

Jul 25
2007

16:03Z

MGR: Moderation

I've temporarily turned off the filter that silently discards mail from 
nonsubscribers, so you'll probably be seeing the spam that gets past 
exim (which REALLY needs its bogus-HELO filter turned on) and 
SpamAssassin, at least for the time being.
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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Wed

Jul 25
2007

16:14Z

MGR: Moderation

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karen Cravens wrote:

KC>I've temporarily turned off the filter that silently discards mail from 
KC>nonsubscribers, so you'll probably be seeing the spam that gets past 
KC>exim (which REALLY needs its bogus-HELO filter turned on) and 
KC>SpamAssassin, at least for the time being.

Also, if you get moderation requests from something like 
"member+123435715@phoenyx.net" (numeric member names), and they're not 
spam, let me know. It means someone is using an email address the system 
didn't recognize, and it just occurred to me that there's no form on the 
profile page for people to actually register new email addresses. 
Correcting that oversight now.

Web-based moderation will let you say "Oh, this is George. And while 
you're at it, bump him to Player status so he doesn't keep getting 
moderated."  But that's in the next release.

And speaking of that, I may have set posting authorization too high on 
some of your groups, so if you get moderation requests for *everyone* let 
me know and I'll change it. (You can change it yourself, but I haven't, 
y'know, *documented* the procedure yet... details... )
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JuhaVesanto
juuso

Tue

Jul 31
2007

13:41Z

Moderation

Hi

I'm having some difficulities on the Celandra list. Firstly, I approved some
messages a few days ago (MOD.celandra.8140.1185456866 and
MOD.celandra.26540.1185501327), but they don't show on the list.
Secondly, I'm not getting any status messages.

juuso

On 25/07/07, Karen Cravens  wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Karen Cravens wrote:
>
> KC>I've temporarily turned off the filter that silently discards mail from
> KC>nonsubscribers, so you'll probably be seeing the spam that gets past
> KC>exim (which REALLY needs its bogus-HELO filter turned on) and
> KC>SpamAssassin, at least for the time being.
>
> Also, if you get moderation requests from something like
> "member+123435715@phoenyx.net" (numeric member names), and they're not
> spam, let me know. It means someone is using an email address the system
> didn't recognize, and it just occurred to me that there's no form on the
> profile page for people to actually register new email addresses.
> Correcting that oversight now.
>
> Web-based moderation will let you say "Oh, this is George. And while
> you're at it, bump him to Player status so he doesn't keep getting
> moderated."  But that's in the next release.
>
> And speaking of that, I may have set posting authorization too high on
> some of your groups, so if you get moderation requests for *everyone* let
> me know and I'll change it. (You can change it yourself, but I haven't,
> y'know, *documented* the procedure yet... details... )
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> Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/managers/
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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Tue

Jul 31
2007

13:48Z

Moderation

> Firstly, I approved some messages 

Hmm. They're still in the modbox, so try again, and I'll watch it this
time. Are you sending to the new approval address (replying to the
messages should do it)? 

> Secondly, I'm not getting any status messages. 

The new software doesn't send them (yet, anyway). Real Soon Now I'll
write up all the moderator docs and show you how to get all sorts of
info from the web.
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