Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-14 Thread Bernadette Mooney
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 1/11/2010 7:15 PM, Bernadette Mooney wrote: The current question is: How can I change the configuration of ALL lists, to add a line like ban_list = ['^[a-za-z0-9@[nn]astymail\\.org' or header_filter_rules =

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of a hurdle for spammers, e.g. captcha, etc? e.

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Terri Oda
Elaine Ashton wrote: Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of a hurdle for spammers, e.g. captcha,

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Terri Oda wrote: I'm not a big believer in captcha's (advances in tech have made a lot of them trivially easy to in an automated way, making them annoying to users for little gain) but it might be worth thinking about a plug in architecture for this in mm3 in

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:59:57PM -0500, Elaine Ashton wrote: Even if it only serves to annoying and slow down spammers, I'd use it. I noted ~2000 zeusmail.org subs overnight Have you thought about rate-limiting? -- ``What does it mean? It means I never have to work again.'' (Don McLean,

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
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

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: 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

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
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

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread David Andrews
At 12:47 PM 1/12/2010, Terri Oda wrote: Elaine Ashton wrote: Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/11/2010 7:15 PM, Bernadette Mooney wrote: The current question is: How can I change the configuration of ALL lists, to add a line like ban_list = ['^[a-za-z0-9@[nn]astymail\\.org' or header_filter_rules = [('Subject:.*\\*\\*\\*SPAM\\*\\*\\*.*', 3, False)] or add an extra