> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:38:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alvin Oga <alvin@planet.fef.com>
> To: amitchell@habeas.com (Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.)
>
> > Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
> >
> > Wow..I just saw it for myself...someone signed up to a confirmed-
> > opt-in group which I moderate (yahoo group) specifically for the
> > purpose of spamming it (pron spam, too).
> >
> > It has been suggested that this can be done by some sort of robot -
> > anybody know how that works?
>
> trivial... see basic psuedo code outline below
>
This is partly why I hacked up my running copy of Majordomo to require
a few approved messages before allowing unrestricted posting
privileges.
Any new subscriber who tries to post gets their messages bounced to the
list-owner until a list-owner-configurable number of messages has been
approved - usually 2 or 3. It prevents this kind of problem, as well
as other obnoxious newbie problems.
I really think newbie filters are a good idea, and hope that other
MLMs implement them. I'm pretty sure a few MLMs do, but I'm not sure
which ones.
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