[Mailman-Developers] Spammers forging addresses forsubscribe/unsubscribe

[Justin Long]

Maybe some of these ideas should be controlled by configuration
options to give the most flexibility?

Unsubscribe from non-member address: (1) Reply (2) Bounce to moderator
(3) Discard

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> Justin Long wrote:
>  >
>  >Is there a way in mailman to do the following - and if not, I'd like
>  >to submit these ideas for implementation or adjustment
>  >(1) bounces from subscribe requests should not include the original message
>
>
>  I can pretty much promise that this and other measures will be in the
>  initial Mailman 2.2 release, but it isn't in Mailman 2.1
>
>
>
>  >(2) unsubscribe requests should be dropped if they come from an
>  >address which is not a member
>
>
>  Interesting idea, but I can see some installations would want to send
>  some kind of response in case it is really from a subscribe who just
>  doesn't happen to know what their correct subscribed address is.
>
>
>
>  >You can't really tell if a subscribe request is valid or not, but at
>  >least the attachments could be stripped out...
>
>
>  Yes, we definitely plan to not echo the message body, at least by
>  default. However, many people feel there should be no response at all.
>  See for example the thread beginning at
>  <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-March/019804.html>
>  and continuing into April.
>
>  --
>  Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>  San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>



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