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Re: Data Center operations mail list?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Possamai)
Fri Aug 14 17:52:33 2015

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From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:52:10 -0500
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Thanks! That works for Apache2.2. For those interested that are using
Apache2.4, make this change:

-Order deny,allow
-Deny from all
+Require all denied

The rest should be the same. Here is some more info:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html


Best,
Rafael




On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a very old (in Internet Years) Mailman problem that was solved
> with session cookies in v2.1.16 (16-Oct-2013).  If you're still
> paranoid, and don't want to piss your users off with privacy leaking
> captcha, then just set up some referer checking in your apache or
> nginx configs:
>
> Apache:
>
>       # Prevent subscription request spam
>      SetEnvIf Referer lists\.example\.com localreferer
>      <Location /mailman/subscribe>
>         Order deny,allow
>         Deny from all
>         Allow from env=localreferer
>      </Location>
> -Jim P.
>

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