| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OT: mailing list delays |
| Date: | 2002-11-07 20:21:40 |
| Message-ID: | 200211072021.gA7KLea23360@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:40, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > Postings by those note on the lists (ie. reading through newsgroups) get
> > put into a queue to be moderated ... today, I went through ~400 messages,
> > of which <100 were legit (non spam) postings ... when I came in on Monday,
> > there were >1000 messages to weed through ...
> >
> > I try to go through it daily during the week, but there are days where it
> > just isn't possible, so it gets delayed a day or three ...
> >
>
> wow, are you rejecting mail from people not subscribed to the list? If
> those spam messages are coming from subscribed emails, perhaps you can
> unsubscribe (or ban?) them from the list when they send spam. Over time
> it should curb your workload.
I assume the spam is coming from non-subscribers. That's how they get
into that queue.
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