This is mostly for the admins of the gnhlug-org mailing list...

The -org list has been getting an unacceptably high number of foreign
language spams. And I'm getting tired of disposing of them.

After dealing with this for a few months, I've decided that the list
address is getting on more and more spamming lists because mailman always
sends out a response when it gets a message from a non-subscriber. The
response is typically, and in english, something to the effect of "Your
message is being held for approval".

I suspect this is encouraging the non-English spammers into sending more
spam because they think there's a "live someone" behind the address.

So, I've decided to turn off the auto-response mechanism in mailman.

What this means is that if you send a message to the list from an
unsubscribed address, then you will never know if the message did or did
not get posted. This will probably make it a bit more difficult for
newbies to self-diagnose their problems, but I figure we don't have too
many newbies on the -org list.

--Bruce


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