Hi All-- On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Elaine Ashton >> >>Even if it only serves to annoying and slow down spammers, I'd use it. I >>noted ~2000 zeusmail.org subs overnight and it concerns me that this is just >>the opening salvo since this will drive lists which are already closed to >>subscribers only to moderate traffic even from subscribers which, for sites >>like ours with 400 or more lists, isn't really practical. Banning the domain >>and blocking the IP(s) is only a temporary fix. > > > My .02 - every list to which someone can subscribe without admin > approval should moderate new members by default. When they post, if > their post is on topic, you can clear their mod bit while approving > the post from the web admindb interface with one extra check in a > checkbox. >
Except that in this case, the new subscribers from zeusmail won't ever post; they'll lurk and snarf email addresses of those who do post. Better not to allow them to subscribe to begin with. Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
