Spammed

[David Bandel]

On 10/18/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >
> > The Mailman lists I maintain are all subscriber posting only which (a) cuts
> > down a lot of spam attempts that get by spamassassin, and (b) generates a
> > fair number of moderator notices that I or other list maintainer have to
> > approve or delete.
> >
> This is a problem that has been mentioned here at work. Isn't there a
> way to configure the list manager so that mail from non-subscribers go
> to some place other than the mail waiting for approval? (I'm thinking
> /dev/null, but not necessarily.) The moderator would be able to browse
> the alien-originated mail at his own good time, or trash it, without
> interfering with the approving of mail from subscribers (assuming that
> the list is moderated).
>
> It seems absurd that the only choices are 1) letting everybody in or 2)
> letting everybody plague the list administrator.
>
> Any workaround, anyone?
> --

This list is subscriber only.  How non-subscribers are getting
through, I have no idea unless someone is OK'ing them.  Note:  the BSD
list alone has over 500 messages waiting in the queue for approval.
They will all be dumped in a minute.  The other lists have similar.

Will look at implementing more controls, RBLs, etc.  So those who stop
getting list mail, send me an e-mail.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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