On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 08:34:05AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Some spammer seems to have discovered the mailman instance that runs > silklist. I am getting ~50 new member requests per day which I am manually > deleting. FML.
Udhay, Can it be done so that mailman says: "thank you, now please go to this page so-an-so and complete the form, please copy the string from the subject of this email into relevant input box or else your message will not be processed". The page sends another email to list owner, again with said string in a subject. Now all that is still needed is to process your inbox with a bit of willpower and a shell script. In a simplest incarnation, the script will show the strings which happened in "Subject" line twice. I am pretty sure the b*ts will go away. Or rather, your work with them will go away. Human made script beats human made b?t. It should be relatively simple to set up in user *unfriendly* environments, because they were engineered to help solving problems in easy way (and provide tools for this). I have never done such thing but I am hopeful. It should be possible even if you use user*-*friendly solutions, but in such case I am unhopeful, all bets are lost and I would expect much more work - unless someone already made a solution, and it can be downloaded and used fer freeah. Tools beat solutions, for each species who can use tools. Evolution vs devolution. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
