From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> Subject: Re: Forged addresses It's somewhat more work for me as moderator. It's a significantly reduced noise level for the list.
The way it should have been in the first place?
The days of laissez-faire administration are dead. The braindead, the novice blunderer and the spammer have killed them.
Not to mention laissez-faire administrators.
So to cut out the Spammers and the folks who have no clue what their email is, my systems will be going to the confirmation-reply-before-subscribe setup.
The way it should have been in the first place?
Fairly sophisticated in some ways, but mostly, they knew when I wasn't looking and got around my traps.
I think maybe 'limped' around your traps would be a better description. (It might have been blind quadraplegics)
in one case, they seem to have broken into a machine to send the spam attack, so it'll be tough...)
Does this not 'ring a bell' that suggests how 'they' know when you're "not looking?" (Buy a clue!)
I'm going to make all lists moderated, and then extend moderation priviledges to the "trusted" set of users.
So that I won't get 1,000 spammed messages from your list? What a brilliant idea, setting up your system so that any idiot with a Commodore 64 and 256k of ram can't use your system to spam the world.
I don't log mailbot requests. Well, I will starting tomorrow...
Like you should have from the beginning?
And suggestions on how to continue to make mailbots available AND make them reasonably safe encouraged.
The mailbot problems are 'warts'. I think you need to check for 'cancer'. Toto