[Adium-devl] Spam on this list

[Zachary West]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 17:56, Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's no concept of "owners" - there's an admin password. Now, every
> single time I go to modify one of the mailing lists, I just change the
> password. I don't know what they're suppose to be, really, but I
> really hate mailman; it's just ridiculously middle-of-last-decade.

You can set moderator emails, who then have to get a new "moderator"
password from mailman, and can then login somewhere and do it.

>
> I believe you can configure what emails this sends to.
>
> For the record, a google groups mirror of this list is at
> http://groups.google.com/group/adium-devl - if we do decide to switch
> over, aliasing the google groups address from adium-devl at adiumx.com
> would be easy.
>
> Zac
>

Part of me is wondering how the spam is getting here. Are they just
crawling to the mailman page and seeing it? It's linked around, so I'm
guessing that might be it. That's really the only explanation I can
think of.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22adium-devl%40adiumx.com%22&btnG=Search

Almost no results for the explicit email address in google. Moderation
is probably the right route, but I can't imagine it's going to at all
be fun or easy to do on a large scale.

Perhaps psa's "require registration to post" is a good move. It
doesn't cause us any extra work. Thoughts?

Zac