[Wine] list spam related question

[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 07:47 -0500, dimesio wrote:
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > BTW, I had a look at the phbb website yesterday and don't understand why
> > everybody thinks it can't connect to a mailing list when it appears that
> > the current version of phpbb has the ability to send posts to an MTA. 
> > 
> 
> So you think it's perfectly fine to let spammers run free on the forum
> so long as the mailing list users are protected from it?  Because your
> suggestion does absolutely nothing to help stop spam on the forum. 
> 
Of course not, but one of the stated reasons for shutting down the
mailing list was that there was no way of putting a spam filter between
phpbb 3.x and the mailing list. I was pointing out that, if I had read
the feature list correctly, mail2forum is not needed with phpbb 3.x
because it can now send mail directly to an MTA and outlining a way of
passing that stream through a spam filter.

On closer inspection of phpbb documentation, it appears that I
misunderstood that section of the feature list. However there are at
least two mailing list bridges being planned: there is an upgrade to
mail2forum (now known as m2f), though I don't know how old or active
that might be since it only mentions phpbb 2.x, and there's talk on the
phpbb site of another project to provide a mailing list bridge to v3.x.
 
> The version of phpbb currently being used does NOT have the capability
> of forcing moderation on new users, which pretty much everyone
> realizes is the best way to control spam.
>
Understood.

>  The current version of phpbb DOES have that capability,
>
Yes, I saw that too.

>  but the mail2forum gateway does not work with it.
>
...yet, and there may be another bridge along too.


Martin