From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 19:51:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BAB2883E for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 19:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x229.google.com (mail-we0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52D632725 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 19:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f169.google.com with SMTP id u56so3500761wes.14 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rJ/ulJdXUFjJzXkRi94ENJlXzNLykLndftavf4JyCBs=; b=dAovrhNsL1cuDAFJCruTH0xgpwUwkEwUJw6TcOoqDceGIpoKWl6IBynxsrKsdFw8oc QZws/zrut+h0TZSv9JbLTKKy4xbru7Z77xbrAgCJUtzskmagyyo34v+R0lERvndXI71T 3M7NeRe8LjxGpZTXqXR1jxx1TI3EyqotRPwAFyOWLsgUTInnJRkvjUADrgz6ym2aSShr aglvSEUlbcE9CxVmKW5bbRKLrmFG6dy4jp6FEqxH2zIcopGEVBg3fLE9ZSVLXxcN1NH4 QTubIIK+/Oua0WsEjxzbCReCbIqLOhoJVhwEwqa9xlZeBo5UHbEZRzGBUNdmNQZWpTLj p0wQ== X-Received: by 10.180.212.107 with SMTP id nj11mr8932990wic.40.1401565861694; Sat, 31 May 2014 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (2e40c57b.skybroadband.com. [46.64.197.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m2sm20845104wjw.3.2014.05.31.12.50.59 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 31 May 2014 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 20:50:58 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please configure this list to subscriber-only, was contact your bank immediately Message-ID: <20140531205058.29d8951e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20140529144617.6271902f@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140529175530.9492.qmail@joyce.lan> <20140531134718.2ca133b7@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 19:51:04 -0000 On Sat, 31 May 2014 09:37:31 -0400 Antoine Kallab wrote: > The bulk of the spam comes from bots subscribed to the list which > then harvest addresses as messages get posted. There's no evidence for that. All we know is that the bots are getting information about the list. There's probably only one subscribed account > The only way I can think of stopping this is to require moderator > approval to join the list, which is unnecessary. You can't stop spammers reading the list and subscription isn't required to post to this list.