From: Richard Ross <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 09:01 11/10/99 GMT, Tobias Andersson wrote:
>GUYS GUYS GUYS.
>
>It should be pretty obvious to everybody by this time that this OM-list is
>beeing continously spammed.
...there is apparently
a feature in Majordomo which allows only submissions from subscribers to
get through to the list. Can Zuiko be set up to do this?
I chatted with the interim list mom (Giles) and John Lind about this
at one time. It isn't quite so simple. In the Majordomo config file,
you have to set the name of a file that contains a list of addresses
that are allowed to post. Apparently, this list must be maintained
separately from the primary mail list for some reason. I believe it
was deemed too much work at the time to keep these two things
coordinated, since people are added and dropped all the time.
Here's the comment from the config file:
# restrict_post [restrict_post] (undef) <resend>
# If defined, only addresses listed in these files (colon or space
# separated) can post to the mailing list. By default, these files
# are relative to the lists directory. These files are also checked
# when get_access, index_access, info_access, intro_access,
# which_access, or who_access is set to 'list'. This is less useful
# than it seems it should be since there is no way to create these
# files if you do not have access to the machine running resend.
# This mechanism will be replaced in a future version of
# majordomo/resend.
From going over the config file (with John Lind's help), it seems to
me that lists that successfully restrict spam are either using a
newer version of Majordomo, or have set up some special sed/grep/awk
magic to coordinate the "restrict_post" list with the current
subscriber list.
In any even, I agree it is inappropriate to reply to the list about
spam. Instead, simply report them to their ISPs, particularly if
well-known popular ones (hotmail.com, msn.net, etc.) appear in the
header.
: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
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