[Mailman-Users] Challenge/Response

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:54 PM -0800 2/9/07, Bob Morse wrote:

>  The problem remains, however: How do I prevent spoofing?

If the problem is that sensitive, then your only option that I can 
see is to use human moderation.  For each message that comes in, you 
have a human look at it to see if it's legitimate or not, and take 
appropriate action.

>                                                           In this case they
>  have a real fear due to a board member who is soon to be ejected from the
>  board and have organizational membership taken away. They feel he is capable
>  (both emotionally and technically) of major disturbances on one or more of
>  about a dozen mailing lists the organization maintains.

Turn on "emergency moderation" for all lists, until the emergency has passed.

>  What makes this even more of a 'challenge' is that the account is on a
>  shared server.

If he can get onto your shared server, then you've got much, much 
bigger problems.  In that case, there's nothing that Mailman can do 
to save your soul.

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