If a mailing list doesn't require membership, ideally, the mailing list manager program should have some way of determining the source email address for messages allowed on the list has a consenting human.

Once being human has been verified for an address, added to a whitelist.

Human verification could take the form of an email requiring a response only a human can give, or a web page asking to identify something not machine readable.

This coupled with per-source-address rate limiting will prevent similar DOS attacks in future.

Perhaps somehow this can be added to http://sf.net and http://savannah.gnu.org ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steven,

The mailing list is hosted at SourceForge. I have very little control over it. I am, however, able to add some filters to look at the mail headers.

So, I just added 3 new filter lines, that will hopefully catch the bounce messages, and NOT relay them to the list.

Thanks for your patience,

Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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