On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, fc wrote: > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff?
Yes, listmas...@lists.debian.org does. > I see these types of things come through periodically -- and 1 delete > on the front end could prevent a lot of woe. We discard large swaths of spam. Some inevitably makes it through. People replying to known spam doesn't help, though. See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam for what you can do to help > *Even more so* -- it seems like unauthorized users can email this > list? > > Why not just restrict it to people who have subscribed? Because that just adds more hoops to jump through for people with a legitimate question, and lots of spam forges From addresses nowadays, anyway. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde