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Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html On 21 Jun 2013, at 05:47, Bill Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 Jun 2013, at 17:26, Luke Tracy wrote: > >> The listserv has now been converted to an MCommunity Group. > > And was echoing every legitimate message for a day. Cute. Not very competent, > but cute. > >> You can view >> the details of the group here: >> https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#group:ldap > > Definitely not ready for production use. It has link syntax errors that would > have been caught in the most trivial sort of testing, making it clear that > was none. Also serve out an uncacheable 7.5 MB file that blocks rendering > until it completes and consists of an atrocious mess of GWT-based JavaScript. > That's simply user-hostile for anyone not on the UMich network, as it means a > long wait (about a minute, at T-1 speed) with nothing renderable. Whoever > created that system would do more good flipping burgers than designing > webapps and writing code. > > Beyond that, the site is displaying the full member list to anyone wandering > by, all in unobfuscated mailto links, perfect for harvesters. You've > apparently also opened submissions to the list to any sender, with a > convenient mailto on the public web page. The inevitable result: the address > I use for this list got its first spam in over 4 years, just 12 hours after > you made the switch. It had 15 more tossed at it in 48 hours, all coming from > UMich machines with [email protected] as the Return-Path. In short: > you've made this a spam list. > >>> The LDAP listserv is an open list and anyone may subscribe and >>> unsubscribe. I am therefore planning to make the MCommunity group joinable, >>> however, only members with a University of Michigan login will be able to >>> join or resign on their own. All others will need to request to join or >>> resign. > > I have an easier method, thanks to having signed up with an address designed > to be killed unilaterally. Never thought I'd have to use it because of > bumbling incompetence at UMich, but glad to be able to stop some spam without > counting on the people whose carelessness made it happen. >
