I am an admin on a mailman list which quickly had automated spam on it. I moved 
to having to manually allow new users. Kind of a pain, but stopped the issue. 
Funny that it took pd-list this long.

> On Aug 29, 2024, at 10:02 PM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote:
> 
> On 29/08/2024 13:04, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>> Hmm... is this the first time we've seen spam on this list?
> 
> seems so.
> afaict, the user subscribed to the list this morning, and then posted 
> what they posted.
> which means, that i don't think there's any systematic exploit which 
> would make spam more likely in the future.
> 
> in any case, if spam starts to show up more regularly, i might add some 
> additional measures (like putting new users on moderation for their 
> first post).
> i'd rather avoid this, though.
> 
> gmadsr
> IOhannes

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danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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