I am an admin on a mailman list which quickly had automated spam on it. I moved to having to manually allow new users. Kind of a pain, but stopped the issue. Funny that it took pd-list this long.
On Aug 29, 2024, at 10:02 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
On 29/08/2024 13:04, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Hmm... is this the first time we've seen spam on this list?
seems so. afaict, the user subscribed to the list this morning, and then posted what they posted. which means, that i don't think there's any systematic exploit which would make spam more likely in the future.
in any case, if spam starts to show up more regularly, i might add some additional measures (like putting new users on moderation for their first post). i'd rather avoid this, though.
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