[Mailman-Developers] Mailing lists exploited

Jonathan Knight j.knight at keele.ac.uk
Tue May 16 08:29:21 EDT 2017


Hi Barry

I think the real name if its available and the list owner address if not.
If you use the local part (e.g. j.knight) would still make it possible to
guess the @keele.ac.uk if the mailing lists are all hosted on
maillists.keele.ac.uk.

I can't think of a better solution.

Jon.


On 16 May 2017 at 12:58, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> On May 16, 2017, at 09:29 AM, Jonathan Knight wrote:
>
> >There's not a lot that can be done to protect against that other than
> >changing the "list is run by" so that the administrators real email
> address
> >isn't obvious.
>
> I suppose we should either use the moderator's real name, or just the local
> part of their address.
>
> -Barry
>
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Jonathan Knight
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