Tim wrote: >>> Making it harder for robots to subscribe themselves. >>> Not supplying lists of members on demand. >>> Munging e-mail addresses written in message bodies. >>> Removing personal addresses from to, CC, reply-to, and from headers. > > The first two points are things that many e-mail lists should do by > default. The first even one reduces its workload. The second one > is not the default action of this mailing list. You have to log in > and set an option to keep your e-mail address from being supplied on > demand. List-admins are the only ones that need to be able to grab > a list of members. Currently, only list administrators can get the members for this list. See the text at the bottom of the listinfo page: fedora-list Subscribers (The subscribers list is only available to the list administrator.) If you can get the member list without knowing an admin password, then you've found a hole in Mailman or in the setup of the redhat.com list server. :) Regarding the first point, you do have to reply with a confirmation string that is emailed to you. So you have to provide a valid address to get subscribed. That's not fool proof, but it should dissuade most bots from subscribing. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Despite the high cost of living, it remains a popular item.
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