Mailman and Discarding Messages
If you moderate a Mailman mailing list that gets lots of spam, I slightly modified an existing Greasemonkey script that might make your life easier.
In the Administrative Database, it will default all messages to discard, and discard all messages from the sender (check “Add foo@bar.com to one of these sender filters” and turn on the discard radio button).
Remember to look over the messages and make sure you aren’t removing or ignoring valid posts/users.
The Greasemonkey script is here.
Or just use listadmin, which lets you specify this by default, and is a heck of a lot faster….
Anyone who does mailman moderation through the web UI, when listadmin exists, is either mad, or doesn’t know about listadmin.
Speaking of which, I should go deal with some more of those high-spam mailing lists…thanks for the reminder.
listadmin is a great tool.
This is just different way of doing it.
listadmin would only be available to shell accounts, which isn’t something you automatically give out to Mailman moderators.
On the other hand, if you correctly tune your MTA, you don’t really have to worry about a massive number of discards. 