Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/30/2004 2:26, "Douglas McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It really surprises me that the vast majority of lists (including this one!) > blithely send out posters' email addresses to all subscribers. Of course, > having > an anonymous list means that posters have to sign their emails,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Douglas McCarroll wrote: >I'm a relative Mailman newby, but this is a big interest of mine. I've just >set >up a couple of lists, and here's what I've done to prevent the harvesting of >list-user email addresses by spammers. Some may be excessive - I don't fully >understand all the options - b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Douglas McCarroll
I'm a relative Mailman newby, but this is a big interest of mine. I've just set up a couple of lists, and here's what I've done to prevent the harvesting of list-user email addresses by spammers. Some may be excessive - I don't fully understand all the options - but when in doubt I take the caut

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:47 PM + 2004-11-29, Gary Smith wrote: In one of the previous posts (Allow members to send e-mail to another list) it was mentioned that intelligent spammers could monitor the output of a list and then spoof one of the subscribed addresses. Indeed, this is a risk. I dont know much a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Gary" == Gary Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> In one of the previous posts (Allow members to send e-mail Gary> to another list) it was mentioned that intelligent spammers Gary> could monitor the output of a list and then spoof one of the Gary> subscribed addresses.

[Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-29 Thread Gary Smith
Hi. In one of the previous posts (Allow members to send e-mail to another list) it was mentioned that intelligent spammers could monitor the output of a list and then spoof one of the subscribed addresses. I dont know much about emails, but how is this possible that they can monitor the out