Re: Listmail disappearing: bad spam filters?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Listmail disappearing: bad spam filters?
Date: 2006-10-20 23:42:15
Message-ID: 94C074A9C6F48B2C64FC0672@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Friday, October 20, 2006 19:11:33 -0400 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
wrote:

> Marc,
>
>> But ... if he "re-submitted" the same article a second time, then most
>> likely it got rejected for exactly the right reason: it was a duplicate
>> posting. Why didn't you approve the one that actually *was* in the
>> moderation queue? :(
>
> Actually, that's a buggy filter. It really should not be filtering out
> "duplicate" messages with timestamps hours apart. The
> post-bounce-subscribe-repost cycle happens *all the time* and that filter
> makes a subscriber wait for me to get to them in the hold queue (which
> sometimes I don't, due to 100+ spams per list per day) even though they
> resoved the "problem" themselves.
>
> So please correct that filter so that it behaves intelligently. Thanks!

You are most welcome to modify the access_rules for those lists you moderate if
you feel they are broken ... there is no way for the system to know you
*didn't* approve what was in the moderation queue (it kinda assumes that, as
moderator, you approved any legit postings, not rejected them because the
poster wasn't subscribed) ...

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