On Jan 6, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > I've never seen it on lists with subscribe_policy of either Confirm or > Approve. I don't allow open subscribe.
Years ago (2000?) I did see this happen with one or twice with lists with a Confirm policy. These were majordomo lists, but still the email confirmation was required. I do not know whether the spammer automated the confirmation process. What I have seen more often (though still rarely) is spammers forging addresses of list members. Again, that was also a long time ago and I don't know whether those were just coincidences (address would have been harvest near each other and spammers then liked to forge From addresses that were possibly associated with recipients) or really targeting the list. On the whole, I have found these things so rare that it hasn't been a real problem. However, in principle lists could easily be targeted, so it is worth considering captchas. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp