[SGVLUG] List Issues.

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Emerson, Tom (*IC)
<Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> Good to hear -- I take it this includes all other SGVlug lists (devsig,
> audio, etc., though I see in a separate thread that Jana is moving the
> "JUG" list to google groups, though I believe more for spam-related
> issues rather than uptime])
>
> I suppose that brings up a point here -- I believe you mentioned the
> "moderation queue" was saturated with upwards of 50,000 "spam" messages
> sent to the list -- if that's the real number, wouldn't it help to put a
> spam filter in FRONT of the moderation queue as well?  Or is it the case
> that these 50k represent things that made it past the "filter"?

It was more then 46K when I stopped deleting 1K at a time I have to
figure out how to use xargs. Anyway the problem is that about 5 real
messages made the moderation queue, in the year that I would check on
the queue, so I stopped checking. Until spam makes it to the list I
don't really want to waste the cpu cycles on spam filtering sense
mailman does it pretty well(by only letting members post to the list).
I have to google on just automatically trashing messages the are in
queue.

by the way there is still problem with the queue that accordingly to
the Mailman FAQ should fix its self but my letting it go to long may
have caused problems.