[cl-faq] Opening up list all together?

[Peter Seibel]

At the moment the cl-faq list allows unlimited posting from  
subscribers and posts from non-subscribers are held for moderation.  
However there are several hundred spams a day which I have to go  
clear out via the Mailman interface. (And which I get mail about as  
the list owner.) Which is a hassle so I need to change something. I  
was thinking of simply closing the lists from posts from non- 
subscribers, as I've done with the gardeners list. But I want non- 
subscribers to be able to submit questions for the FAQ. So I was  
going to provide some other address. Which itself would be flooded  
with spam in short order but at least that would get filtered off by  
my spam filters which seem to work pretty well. So then it occured to  
me I could go in the opposite direction--I can completely open cl-faq  
to posting from anyone which means the spams will come to the list  
but then can be filtered out along with all the other junk that I get  
sent every day. The question is, how do the rest of you feel about  
that--are you confident that your spam filters will deal with that in  
a way that will not make the cl-faq mailing list completely useless  
to you? Unless anyone strongly objects, I'll probably try it for a  
while and if there's too much spam that your filters aren't handling  
I'll set up another list with an open policy but which will be used  
only for submissions, not discussion.

-Peter

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