Trent Fisher wrote: >I have a big problem, and I am hoping someone here has some advice... I have a >person on my mailing list who has been very abusive, but has recently taken a >turn to the creepy (I would call it cyberstalking), and so I have been trying >to eject him from the list.
Other responders have given good advice. I just want to address a few technical issues. <snip> >Then I set new subscribers to be moderated by default. Then after a pause of >a week or so, he starts posting again. But he cannot as only members may post >to the list. Looking at the email headers it is clear that he must be forging >the email messages to look, to the casual observer, like they are going >through the mailing list, but his messages lack the proper "Reply-To" and all >the "List-*" headers... but he is somehow "on" the mailing list to be getting >the messages to respond to. Does your list have archives? If he is a member, even with delivery disabled, he can visit archives, and if archives are public, anyone can visit them. Is your list roster available to anyone, list members, or only the admin? >So, I set all recent subscribers to "nomail", under the assumption one of them >is him. But his posts (that is, replys to mailing list messages) continue. >So he still has an address on the list, but I cannot figure out which one. > >Here's something weird: someone subscribed a week or so ago, but I cannot find >them on the web interface. I get both subscribe and unsubscribe >notifications, so I know he didn't unsubscribe. Could this guy be exploiting >a bug? Prior to Mailman 2.2 which isn't released yet, changes of address are not logged, so he subscribed and then changed his address. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
