[geeklog-users] Geeklog mailing lists and the spam problem ...

[geeklog-users-admin at lists.geeklog.net]

On Tuesday 08 Apr 2003 4:22 pm +8, geeklog-users-admin at lists.geeklog.net 
wrote:

I run various lists on our Balita server and all of them are set up so 
that only subscribers can post - I also have the list/s set up until the 
subscriber makes his/her first post it is moderated. That way we have 
alleviated the problem of spammers. In this days of spam I think it 
unwise to have a list that allows anonymous posts.

Hiding the posters address is a good move 

Wayne

> In the wake of <http://www.geeklog.net/
> article.php?story=20030319180103719> we've decided to try and hide the
> email addresses from the postings on geeklog-users (as you probably
> noticed). The problem is that there's currently no easy way to hide
> addresses from the list archives - and, of course, any potential
> spammer could simply subscribe to the list and grab the addresses of
> people posting there.
>
> Also, it seems that the spammers have now found out about our mailing
> lists and started spamming them. So I have two questions for you:
>
> 1) Would you like to see the "anonymous" posts on all our lists or
> would you like to see it reversed?
>
> 2) Do you think we should close the lists so that only subscribed
> users can post to them?
>
> bye, Dirk