Thanks for everyone's thoughts and suggestions. I have recommended setting
each list on emergency moderation. They have about a dozen lists for various
tasks. So, I suggested each list be assigned a moderator/administrator
(Currently one person manages all lists). Since the fear is the person will
Bob Morse writes:
The problem remains, however: How do I prevent spoofing? In this case they
have a real fear due to a board member who is soon to be ejected from the
board and have organizational membership taken away. They feel he is capable
(both emotionally and technically) of major
The problem remains, however: How do I prevent spoofing? In this case they
have a real fear due to a board member who is soon to be ejected from the
board and have organizational membership taken away. They feel he is capable
(both emotionally and technically) of major disturbances on one or
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:54:59 -0800
Bob Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you all for your insights in the
Challenge/Response question. I am
convinced this is not the way to go. In fact, I used
some of the same
arguments to the client when he brought it up.
The problem remains,
Karl Zander wrote:
Fundamentally, its not a technology problem.
Agreed, but as others have suggested, technology can help. For example,
if the 'bad guy' has a fixed IP, you can set header_filter_rules to
discard messages that have that IP in a Received: header. Of course,
that may just force
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:18:26 -0800
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karl Zander wrote:
Fundamentally, its not a technology problem.
Agreed, but as others have suggested, technology can
help.
Yes. I didn't mean to imply it could not. We are using
technology to help us manage
Bob Morse wrote:
I have a client who is concerned about his list subscriber addresses being
spoofed. In other words someone who knows the addresses of people on the
list can set up a mail server and spoof the subscriber so he can post nasty
things to the list. He would like to set up a
Thank you all for your insights in the Challenge/Response question. I am
convinced this is not the way to go. In fact, I used some of the same
arguments to the client when he brought it up.
The problem remains, however: How do I prevent spoofing? In this case they
have a real fear due to a board
At 3:54 PM -0800 2/9/07, Bob Morse wrote:
The problem remains, however: How do I prevent spoofing?
If the problem is that sensitive, then your only option that I can
see is to use human moderation. For each message that comes in, you
have a human look at it to see if it's legitimate or not,
I have a client who is concerned about his list subscriber addresses being
spoofed. In other words someone who knows the addresses of people on the
list can set up a mail server and spoof the subscriber so he can post nasty
things to the list. He would like to set up a challenge/response mechanism
On 2/8/07, Bob Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a client who is concerned about his list subscriber addresses being
spoofed. In other words someone who knows the addresses of people on the
list can set up a mail server and spoof the subscriber so he can post nasty
things to the list. He
Bob Morse wrote:
BTW, searching the archives at mail-arcihve.com gets a 404 error.
I see that too, but that is a www.mail-archive.com issue. We can't do
anything about it.
See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.018.htp
for info on searching
At 1:40 PM -0800 2/8/07, Bob Morse wrote:
He would like to set up a challenge/response mechanism
so that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts to the list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets
sent a
copy of the message and must confirm that he/she was the sender before it
gets posted. I
Quoting Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
At 1:40 PM -0800 2/8/07, Bob Morse wrote:
He would like to set up a challenge/response mechanism
so that when [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts to the list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets
sent a
copy of the message and must confirm that
Brad Knowles writes:
Challenge/response is one of the most vile inventions that has ever
been applied to the concept of Internet e-mail.
*chuckle*
I wouldn't go so far, since the spam that evoked it is far worse, but
I'm steadfastly opposed to challenge-response.
If you absolutely *must*
I have a client who is concerned about his list subscriber addresses being
spoofed. In other words someone who knows the addresses of people on the
list can set up a mail server and spoof the subscriber so he can post nasty
things to the list. He would like to set up a challenge/response
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