[ADMINISTRIVIA]: Change list submission policy please?

[Simon Marlow]

> Ralf Hinze <ralf@informatik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
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> >> The haskell mailing list is getting an increasing amount of
> >> spam, viruses, and virus warnings.  Would it be possible
> >> to change the list policy to only allow submissions from
> >> subscribed members?  Please?
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> > I'd like to second this. The amount of spam etc is becoming
> > more and more annoying ...
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> Thirded!  While we won't easily get rid of Outlook-viruses (since the
> list may appear in people's address books), at least we can get rid of
> the loads of warnings from misconfigured mail servers following them.

The problem with this (and the reason it hasn't been done before) is =
that several people subscribe to the list under a different address than =
the one they use to post - for example, some institutions gateway the =
list to a local newsgroup.  We could work around this, but it would =
undoubtedly cause a non-zero amount of hassle.

The haskell.org crew are looking into installing some spam filtering at =
the moment.

Cheers,
	Simon