[Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion list to Google groups

[Istvan Albert]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Just curious, but does anyone know whether Google groups are more or less susceptible to spamming?
> The current mailman setup does keep out a vast majority of spam (I can't recall the last instance, actually).


The effective way to deal with it is white listing. There is a setting
that requires that the first message from a given email be approved by
mods.

That being said spam, popularity and ease of access all correlate.



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Istvan Albert
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