Subject: Re: Reason for current policy, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Should the list be members-only?
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 17:13:44 EEST
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:57:12PM +0200, ?rjan Askhult wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When this was discussed on lmkl the answer from Matti Aarnio -- co-postmaster of vger.kernel.org was:
> >
> > "Running lists _closed_ doesn't solve the thing either. It would
> > be enough for a spammer to fake source address that is known poster
> > to a list."
>
> That is true, but in practice that does not seem to be happening.
> We're just getting a bunch of spam from non-subscribed addresses.
>
as a sidenote, paul, when you change the config, make sure the subscriber
list remains protected from public view.
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