[91153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG Spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Etaoin Shrdlu)
Thu Jul 6 09:35:41 2006
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:35:11 -0700
From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <44AC2D04.2000701@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
>> The spammers have figured out how to bypass the NANOG members-only
>> posting, in this case by pretending to be John Fraizer and sending
>> directly to trapdoor.
> On our public list servers we now require admin approval of all new
> subscriptions as well as email verification....Perhaps these are some
> ideas for the NANOG mailinglist admins to implement.
Or not. I expect that we've seen only the tip of the iceberg on people
who will now post one "I'm here, please don't moderate me" post. NANOG
has how many readers? For those who may have misread Jim's post, he was
talking about *another* mailing list, not this one, on the moderation
method mentioned. No sign that this is in effect on nanog.
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