Re: A note about the list js-devs-task-force

[Zak Rogoff]

On 09/24/2013 01:05 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Zak,
> 
>     Great, thank you for the explanation, and for making sure the list is
>     set up with listhelper despamming.
> 
> It isn't set up yet, because the list has still not been created.
> Should I do so?  I just don't want to confuse the sysadmins.
> 
>     When you refer to listhelper, are you talking about a program or a
>     combination of a program and volunteers despamming? 
> 
> It's a combination of a variety of things -- spamassassin, a specific
> set of mailman configuration settings, humans, etc.  The two people
> involved are me and Bob Proulx.  We wrote a brief description at
> http://www.nongnu.org/listhelper/ (and linked pages).
> 
>     Is there any other despamming method that we should be choosing to
>     use or not, other than listhelper?
> 
> The sysadmins have additional spam filtering in place on lists.gnu.org,
> the results of which are not accessible to users.  The filtered junk
> msgs end up in lists:/spam/LISTNAME.  It kills a whole lot of mail, but
> happily, the few times I have had occasion to check there, I have never
> seen real messages wrongly classified as spam.  I am not sure what
> program is used for that filtering, if it's just spamassassin or
> something else.
> 
> As for anything else -- I can't exactly imagine what it would be, but we
> would surely like to know if any other spam filtering is put in place,
> whether for the system or for particular lists.
> 
>     Just to clarify, if the sysadmins use ~list/mycreate_list.pl, it will
>     have listhelper set up to do despamming?
> 
> Yes, that's correct.
> 
> Best,
> Karl
> 
Hey, my apologies. I lost track of this email and just found it now. The
sysadmins have set up the list now, and they say they used
mycreate_list.pl, so it should be set up with despamming.



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