On 9 Dec 2000, at 8:26, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> Something that came up on the mailman list...
>
> At 3:09 AM -0600 12/9/00, Christopher Lindsey wrote:
>
> > Yes, this has definitely been troublesome. I've blocked many
> > commercial sites like findmail.com (egroups) and remarq.com from my
> > lists because of their secret archiving that displays email addresses
> > to the public, but at least they don't spam the lists back. But
> > of course anyone can browse these sites and get addresses to their
> > heart's content, then forge MAIL FROM: to sneak mail into the lists.
> But Murr Rhame on list-managers said something that made me think of
> a possible answer -- new subscribers automatically go into "hold for
> approval" mode. it'd be another flag in the user record (like digest
> or nomail), and when you subscribe, it's turned on. All messages are
> held for the admin to approve. Once an admin can trust a new account,
> he turns off the flag and they post without restriction.
That won't help --- if the spammer just uses the on-list-account to
harvest addresses [perhaps even using the archives to get a *bunch* in a
hurry] and then just uses suitable forgery to make the spam seem to come
from a legit account, you have a hard time figuring out who the actual
perp is...
/Bernie\
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