[RHCE] Low Price Tobacco

[Jim Thompson]

Actually, the list used to be set to "only members can
post" to the list. However, I UNset that because so
many people are having basic trouble with trying to
post to the list from email addresses that are
different from the one they're actually subscribed
with.

Each time they do that, it generates an "administrator
must approve this post" email to the list admin (me)
who must then approve, deny, or reject the post. Of
course, the member figures it out and re-submits the
post with his valid account, but the original message
must still be dealt with via mailman. I've tried to
send out some nice "please subscribe to the list if
you want to post" emails when this happens, but I tend
to get back indignant "I *AM* SUBSCRIBED, DOOFUS, WHY
DO YOU H8 ME??!? WHY MUST I DEAL WITH THIS HASSLE??"
emails in return.

Just relax. This is ONE piece of spam. If we get more,
I'll set the "non members" bit back. Sound ok?
Alternately, if everyone violently wants "members
only" I'll slap it back on straight off, no UN
resolution required.

Jim



--- Mike Broome <mbroome@employees.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:04:04AM -0500, Jeremy
> Portzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:58, Mike Broome wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:52:11AM -0500, Rock
> Roskam wrote:
> > > > Grrr! We have been pegged.
> > > 
> > > Gah!  Now how do we make it stop?
> > > 
> > > <*insert discussion of the possible steps and
> probable futility of
> > > trying to stop spam in today's Internet
> environment*>
> > > 
> > > trilug.org is running SpamAssassain, but looking
> at the headers, it has
> > > "X-Spam-Status: No, ..." so it wasn't thought to
> be spam.  Any way to
> > > change its mind or smarten up SA?
> > 
> > My headers don't show that -- are you running SA
> on your own mail
> > server?
> 
> Ah, got it.  SA isn't running on the box where I
> read my mail, but it is
> running on an intermediate box that forwards to this
> one.  Sorry for the
> false alarm.
> 
> > While SpamAssassin is installed on TriLUG's mail
> server, it's only
> > enabled for users who run it from their
> ~/.procmailrc.  It doesn't
> > interact with mailman at all.  
> 
> So SA on trilug.org only works for delivery of local
> trilug.org account
> e-mail, assuming the user has enabled it via
> ~/.procmailrc.  Got it.
> 
> > The real solution is to change this list so that
> only members can post
> > -- Jim Thompson, do you want to take care of this
> or should I?
> 
> Yep.  This is the solution I recently went to with a
> majordomo-based
> mailing list I run on another server.  I get more
> bounces from people
> who post from addresses that aren't subscribed.  I
> think I've heard that
> mailman makes the process of allowing config of
> extra addresses for
> posting relatively painless, but I could be wrong.
> 
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Mike Broome
> mbroome(at)employees.org
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