[Mailman-Users] unauthorized people can send mails to the list ...

[Raquel Rice]

On Sun, 26 May 2002 20:42:03 +0200
pilsl at goldfisch.at pilsl at goldfisch.at wrote:

> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:29:44AM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote:
> > 
> > Check out the documentation at ...
> > 
> http://www.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html
> > ... about halfway down the page at "General posting filtersj"
> and
> > "Posting privileges explained".
> >
> 
> thnx, 
> 
> unfortunately anyone can fake a sender-adress and so any person in
> this world can send a mail to this list as soon as he knows the
> emailadress of a person that is actually allowed to send an mail
> to
> the list.
> 
> Authentication per email-adress is a very weak mechanism cause
> mail-adresses can be faked very easily and so mailman uses
> confirmation-mail on subscription but does not offer this feature
> on
> posting.
> 
> peter
> 

Why can't you make *ALL* posts to the list subject to confirmation
by the listowner?  In other words, make the list totally moderated? 
Then you make only those who are able to post, moderators?  When
"Susan" posts an announcement to the list, she herself goes and
validates it through the web interface?

-- 
Raquel
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