[ILUG] Moderation of list posts from non subscribers

[Jeroen Massar]

Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2006, at 13:38, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> 
>> A suggestion (perhaps already implemented) -- once an address
>> passes moderation once, whitelist it.
> 
> NO! I strongly disagree.I've gone to the bother of subscribing my other
> addresses - I don't see why everybody else shouldn't.
> 
> Seriously though, if this is easily done with mailman (I REALLY must
> read its FM one day soon), it sounds like a top notch idea.

It's very simple ;)

The moderator interface sort of looks like (web->ascii'd by me ;)

per message a block like:

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                   From:deborahmorris323 at business-china.com
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Action to take on all these held messages:

[X] Defer [ ] Accept [ ] Reject [ ] Discard

[ ] Preserve messages for the site administrator
[ ] Forward messages (individually) to: [.....]

[ ] Add deborahmorris323 at business-china.com to one of these sender
    filters:
    [ ] Accepts [ ] Holds [ ] Rejects [X] Discards

[ ] Ban deborahmorris323 at business-china.com from ever
    subscribing to this mailing list
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and then to the right of that:

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Click on the message number to view the individual message, or you can
view all messages from deborahmorris323 at business-china.com
  	
[1] 	Subject: 	hi ipsec
  	Size: 	        2201 bytes
  	Reason: 	Post by non-member to a members-only list
  	Received:  	Fri Nov 10 11:49:09 2006
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At the top and bottom a nice checkbox:
[ ] Discard all messages marked Defer

Which allows one to throw away everything not changed from Defer (the
default). Adding people to the 'whitelist' is thus simply done with 4
clicks (Accept, Add to filter, Accept filter, Submit All Data).

Following the link behind [1] reveals per-entry the message headers and
a message excerpt (top part usually).

Mailman is really cool, the only problem is that when you get 100+ spams
 per day, then the job of approving them becomes a bit daunting. That
could be improved by having the messages be grouped based on SA scoring
or something or freak content. Fortunately SA is already before mailman
thus the moderators won't be getting that much work on their heads :)

Greets,
 Jeroen