At 07:16 PM 5/5/2001, MJ Ray wrote:
We're getting more spam now. There are a number of options open to us:
- Can whoever has posted our mailing list address on a web site
*please* remove it again and email alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk to let us know?
- We can lock the list down so that only subscribed addresses can
sent without being approved.
In my opinion, this is the easiest course of action. Unfortunately, I'm on a couple of lists that see spam in spite of this rule being in effect. Spammers will subscribe, spam, then unsubscribe all in the space of time that it takes to run their nasty little script.
One list that I'm on has taken this a step farther and will not allow a new subscriber to post until they've been on the list for a period of 6 days. This seems to be reasonably effective since spammer's accounts don't usually last that long.
But being spammers, you know that they will find a way around it. <sigh>
- We can lock the list down so that only emails with [Alug] in the
subject line are allowed through.
Though everyone else seems to be against this one, personally I don't have a problem with it. But majority rule and all that...
- We can try to fight a rear-guard action and try to block obvious
spammers.
- We can hold anything which looks like it might possibly be spam for
approval
- We can ask Brett to hook the list software up to ORBS or MAPS.
Opinions/votes? I hope that option 1 would work, but I quite like option 3 too.