On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:57:33 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >John Fitzsimons writes:
Hi Stephen, > > Then I got the next Gmane email... > > "You are now authorized to post to the > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx newsgroup." etc. > > I shouldn't have got that second email, or had my newsgroup post > > forwarded to the newsgroup. > > Can anyone here suggest where the problem may be please ? >List membership is easy to spoof anyway. Umm. I was beginning to wonder about that. I am familiar with usenet spoofing but hadn't thought deeply enough about that situation in email. :-( If I understand you correctly then anyone can post to any unmoderated emailing list by simply spoofing someone who is authorised to post ? >The only way to control traffic to your list is to moderate it. Okay, of course that is quite impractical. I cannot be around to "authorise" posts 24 hours a day. :-( I am now beginning to see one of the reasons why those abominations called web boards are so popular. > > As well as to suggest a way to fix it please ? >Moderate the GMane subscription. Okay, that however would pretty much kill the mailing list. If someone posted while I was asleep then they would have to wait hours for my "okay". > > So it "appears" to be setup correctly. > > Can anyone here help me with this please ? >GMane has a bad reputation around here for not respecting the wishes >of list owners. It's very convenient for your users, but if you allow >GMane to gateway to your list, you are at their mercy. Unfortunately, like the majority of internet users who have limited finances, I have no choice. They are the only people in the world, that I know of, who enable people to have a free NNTP server access. >I don't have strong anti-GMane feelings myself; I consider it a >valuable service to my lists. Agreed. Unless you have money, and/or are a unix expert with root access somewhere, your choices for private newsgroups other than Gmane are zero. It is a pity that nobody in the open source community is interested in creating an NNTP server that someone, who isn't a unix expert, could install on a "hosted" web site. :-( Thank you for your feedback. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
