Spammed

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, David Bandel wrote:
> 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.

This list, and the others were not subscriber only until this morning when 
they were changed into that state as a result of the sudden & rapid influx 
of spam.

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