On 14 October 2026 15:35:28 CEST, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
On 10/14/26 2:06 AM, Schimon via Standards wrote: I don't intentionally "allow" spam messages through, because I don't moderate all messages manually - that would be a ridiculous policy. We already require subscriptions to the list in order to post, but we could further change the policy to be "confirm then moderate" so that the list moderator needs to manually approve all subscriptions. But that could introduce unwanted side-effects and delays, because how does the list moderator know which email addresses are nice people who want to discuss technical issues, and which are spammers?
I have a solution in mind: put the first mail from a new sender under review and then once accepted allow subsequent mails to pass through. This would hopefully thwart most bots, and wouldn't be as much of a burden as reviewing every mail.