[admin] Re: Spam on common-lisp.net mailing lists

[Gary King]

Hi David,

I'm skimming the mailman manual now; can you point out exactly which  
setting you had to change?

thanks,

On Jan 21, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Drew Crampsie wrote:

> On 20/01/2008, David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> common-lisp.net mailing lists are still being haunted by the default
>> mailman setting that allows any mail through if its pretends to come
>> from a @common-lisp.net address.
>
> Ouch, this stinks. I don't know much about mailman, so if any of you
> do can you point me in the right direction?
>
> This is a stupid default, and i'd like to scrap it completely if  
> nobody objects.
>
> Cheers,
>
> drewc
>
>>
>> For the latest examples, see
>>
>> http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/closure-devel/2008-January/thread.html
>>
>> It's possible to disable this setting for each list separately, and  
>> I've
>> already had to go through all of my lists to do so.
>>
>> Unfortunately, lots of other lists still seem to have this setting.
>> Is there perhaps something you can do globally to combat this  
>> problem?
>>
>> - Change the setting for existing lists?
>> - At least change the default for new lists.
>> - Alternatively, I guess you'd have to require SMTP auth for senders,
>>  so that mails pretending to come from @common-lisp.net addresses are
>>  actually verified.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
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