[admin] Re: Spam on common-lisp.net mailing lists

On 20/01/2008, David Lichteblau david@lichteblau.com wrote:

Hi,

common-lisp.net mailing lists are still being haunted by the default mailman setting that allows any mail through if its pretends to come from a @common-lisp.net address.

Ouch, this stinks. I don't know much about mailman, so if any of you do can you point me in the right direction?

This is a stupid default, and i'd like to scrap it completely if nobody objects.

Cheers,

drewc

For the latest examples, see

http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/closure-devel/2008-January/thread.html

It's possible to disable this setting for each list separately, and I've already had to go through all of my lists to do so.

Unfortunately, lots of other lists still seem to have this setting. Is there perhaps something you can do globally to combat this problem?

• Change the setting for existing lists?
• At least change the default for new lists.
• Alternatively, I guess you'd have to require SMTP auth for senders, so that mails pretending to come from @common-lisp.net addresses are actually verified.

Thanks, David

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