[CLUE-Tech] Stopping freakin' spam on the mailman lists

Timothy C. Klein teece at silverklein.net
Tue Jul 23 21:57:18 MDT 2002


No ideas on your spam troubles, Jeff, but your system clock seems to be
behind by a month, FYI.  (It is 23 *July* isn't it? Not June?)

Tim

* Jeffery C. Cann (fabian at jefferycann.com) wrote:
> Arrgh.
> 
> For some reason, pipermail (the program that archives our mailman lists) does 
> not hide poster's email addresses.  
> 
> Given the sheer number of clue-tech email messages no on google, I have 
> noticed an increase of in number of attempted postings to the list.  None 
> reach the list because the bots haven't figured out how to subscribe and then 
> spam automatically.  However, as one of the list adminstrators, I am annoyed 
> because each attempt by a spam bot to post to the list results in a message 
> for me to authorize the non-subscriber's post.
> 
> So, I am crying 'uncle' and asking for some advice on what software we need 
> to set up to reduce the amount of spam that is pushed to our email lists.  We 
> are running sendmail, btw.
> 
> Thanks.
> Jeff
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