I've got a new problem with my mailing list. I run a local announcements/trade list that should be of no interest to
non-locals.
I started seeing warnings from Yahoo about users marking messages as spam.. (I'm subscribed to Yahoo's Antispam
Feedback. I never got other feedback loops from others - like Microsoft - to work). The messages that were being marked
as spam by users were the confirmation emails sent by mailman to confirm a signup. To avoid having Yahoo shut down the
list as spam (for its subscribers), I set the subscription to be approved by admin, so I could review who was trying to
sign up.
More and more now I'm seeing what appears to be spammers trying to subscribe,
but I can't be sure. I'm seeing emails like:
hirofeet0...@yahoo.co.jp (doesn't seem local)
blvckp...@gmail.com (not many use user names such as that)
fsafwcasgsa...@gwqc.com (obviously not real - couldn't find domain with
minimal searching)
Plus some that could be local but how would I know.
I could take off the "approval by admin" for subscription and just deal with
anyone that is a problem afterward, but I do worry that they may be harvesting emails
from subscribers, which are available in the reply-to headers.
Don't know if there's anything I can do. Anyone else dealing with this?
thanks. Jim
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