Re: [ot] spam on the list (was Re: Re: List-02-2024)
Dan Wilcox <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I am an admin on a mailman list which quickly had automated spam on it. I moved to having to manually allow new users. Kind of a pain, but stopped the issue. Funny that it took pd-list this long. > On Aug 29, 2024, at 10:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > On 29/08/2024 13:04, Dan Wilcox wrote: >> Hmm... is this the first time we've seen spam on this list? > > seems so. > afaict, the user subscribed to the list this morning, and then posted > what they posted. > which means, that i don't think there's any systematic exploit which > would make spam more likely in the future. > > in any case, if spam starts to show up more regularly, i might add some > additional measures (like putting new users on moderation for their > first post). > i'd rather avoid this, though. > > gmadsr > IOhannes -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> --- [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/UWVTF42ODY3XSZ6ILP6YHZFZUH4ZPRSB/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/