Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 20:50:58 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please configure this list to subscriber-only, was contact your bank immediately Message-ID: <20140531205058.29d8951e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <A2F6D264-0620-443D-91AA-E94208ABE11E@kallab.com> References: <20140529144617.6271902f@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140529175530.9492.qmail@joyce.lan> <20140531134718.2ca133b7@gumby.homeunix.com> <A2F6D264-0620-443D-91AA-E94208ABE11E@kallab.com>
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 09:37:31 -0400 Antoine Kallab wrote: > The bulk of the spam comes from bots subscribed to the list which > then harvest addresses as messages get posted. There's no evidence for that. All we know is that the bots are getting information about the list. There's probably only one subscribed account > The only way I can think of stopping this is to require moderator > approval to join the list, which is unnecessary. You can't stop spammers reading the list and subscription isn't required to post to this list.
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