[Mailman-Users] Cascading lists

2018-06-02 Thread Rubén Fernández Asensio
Hello all, I'm a new list administrator and a bit lost among Mailman's many features. Could you please give some advice? I'm trying to implement an announcement list and an unmoderated discussion list, and having the second receive all mail sent to the first one. The announcement list will prev

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 2018-06-02 at 20:50 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Are they just script kiddies trying to be noticed or are they > actually trying to accomplish something. I don't think they know what potential they have, but they know there has to be somethin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread David Andrews
At 10:29 PM 6/2/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 06/02/2018 06:55 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Does anyone have any solution for dealing with spam subscriptions from > gmail > addresses? > The requests are coming from random addresses that contain a few words, a > plus sign, then another random string

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
I have a different question. For a few weeks now the Mailman 2.1 lists @python.org have seen a massive number of web subscribes from addresses @yahoo.com and @aol.com addresses. The aol.com ones seem to have abated but yahoo.com continues. They mostly have local parts that look like first and last

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/02/2018 06:55 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Does anyone have any solution for dealing with spam subscriptions from > gmail > addresses? > The requests are coming from random addresses that contain a few words, a > plus sign, then another random string of characters. I use this regexp in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread David Andrews
A couple months ago I asked a question and got a response from Mark Sapiro, see below. We are having trouble implementing anything. We are trying recaptcha, but it isn't popular with our users, thousands of whom are blind. Here is what my Linux guy asks: Does anyone have any solution for deal

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Freezing" mailing list

2018-06-02 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Hi, > > Though already it has been resolved, JFYI. > > On 05/29/18 23:20, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: >> I would like to "freeze" an existing mailing list: I want to keep the >> mailing list but I want no one newly subscribe the list. > > I've implemented new list's subscribe_policy 'forbid' for this