[Mailman-Users] Nonsubscribers attacking one of my lists.

[Richard Damon]

Set the action on Sender Filters for messages from non-members to discard, instead of hold. I had to do that a long time ago (Don’t reject or you will be generating back-scatter)

> On Jan 19, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> One of my forums has suddenly been inundated with posts to the list by non-subscribers, 
> most of which seem to be coming from some homosexual list somewhere. 
> 
> These seem to be coming from every place in the world.
> 
> I receive notices from Mailman every time I check my e-mail listing of 4 to a dozen 
> non-subscribers attempting post to the forum, and I have to go to my admin database and 
> remove and block each one.
> 
> Is there some way to prevent these jerks from showing up in the database at all?
> 
> Ken Gordon
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