Meta: list moderation and spam

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

Speaking as one of the pdxruby mailing list moderators, I wanted to
let you guys know about some issues we've been having with the volume
of spam hitting the moderation queue. There are usually *at least* a
few dozen obvious spam hitting the queue in a single day, which makes
it pretty difficult to stay on top of rejecting all of it fast enough
to keep legitimate messages from being buried for days or even weeks
at a time.

In the interest of bringing things back under control, and preventing
out-of-order posting due to moderator overload, I've added fairly
draconian spam-handling rules to the list filters: anything with a
Spam Asssassin score over 7 will get silently dropped from the queue.
Please let me know (either directly, or through the
pdxruby-***@lists.pdxruby.org alias) if you notice any messages of
your own "vanishing", and I can ratchet the controls back down a bit,
but in the meantime, I'm hoping this will spare my poor Inbox from the
torrent of obvious spam flooding the list.

I know return you to your regularly-scheduled scheduling thread.

-Lennon

P.S.: I will, unfortunately, probably not be able to make it tonight,
but I hope you guys have a great time.