[Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

[Robert Millan]

Sounds a lot like ASK (Active Spam Killer)

 http://www.paganini.net/ask/

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:39:19PM +0300, Madsen Wikholm wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Lately I've been getting a lot of spam to many of the lists that I
> administer.
> 
> While reading an article about spam-prevention it hit me that one way to
> easily cut down on spam on an open list, would be to have mailman send out a
> confirmation message for non-member posts. If the sender confirms then,
> address gets added to the accept_these_nonmembers, if not the message gets
> dropped after some time and the adress perhaps added to
> discard_these_nonmembers.
> 
> I think there should perhaps be a way to tell mailman that the From: address
> was forged, so forget the whole deal...
> 
> cheers,
> madsen
> 
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Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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