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task #12225: denemo-devel mailing list receives unmoderated email from non-user

Submitter:  Richard Shann <rshann>
Submitted:  Wed 29 Aug 2012 09:15:24 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Wed 29 Aug 2012 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Wed 29 Aug 2012 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Approved Projects to be Reviewed Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 30 Aug 2012 07:55:00 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Hi - Karl, thank you very much for responding so quickly - I didn't see that list when looking for the name, sorry. (And, that possibility for how it got through didn't occur to me...)
The archives are fine with the odd mistakenly sent message - I guess it would be nice if people could retract things but I can understand that it may not be at all easy.
Hi - Bob, if my memory worked as well as it once did I would have remembered that, I replied to him at that time. So my fault. Thanks a lot.

Richard

Richard Shann <rshann>
Thu 30 Aug 2012 06:20:12 AM UTC, comment #3: 

As Karl suggested that address had posted a valid message in the past.  I found one on 12 Jan 2009.  So it has been some time ago but at that time they were a valid candidate for whitelisting.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Thu 30 Aug 2012 06:14:30 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I also see that default_member_moderation is set to no.  I went ahead and changed that to yes.  Otherwise spammers do subscribe and then post spam messages.


Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Wed 29 Aug 2012 10:42:54 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Richard -

-email is unavailable- was in the accept_these_nonmembers list (privacy > sender options in the mailman web ui).  I expect ta real message was posted from that address at some point, perhaps long ago.  I removed it now.  Could discuss much more here if you want, but will leave it at that for now.

As for the archives, unless you feel very strongly about it, I'd really rather not worry about one bad message.  It's quite a bit of hassle to regenerate.

All the best,
Karl

Karl Berry <karl>
Site Administrator
Wed 29 Aug 2012 09:15:24 PM UTC, original submission:  

The denemo-devel mailing list has just received a spam email which hasn't gone through the usual moderation request (at least not to me, I am the only one active on moderating). The user appears to be

Scott Mohnkern <mohnkern@gmail.com>

but this doesn't appear in the user list.

Worse still I can't find a way of deleting this spam from the archive...

Richard Shann <rshann>

 

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