Bug#407530: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#407530: Self-Approve mails if membery-only setting is just for spam protection

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 19.01.2007, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst:
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> > a lot of mailing lists have posting only available to members just to
> > prevent spam. For these lists there should be an option that adds a link
> > to the „Your message is held...“ notification that will allow the
> > message to go through, just like the link to delete it, or the check in
> > the subscription handshake. This would reduce work for the list
> > administrator and be more friendly to the casual poster.
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion. Spam bots register and post on my web
> forum which has email verification of registrations. So do you really
> think this would help?

If they can do that, they also could confirm the subscription
confirmation and then spam the list. But currently, only web spam bots
do that, not e-mail spam bots, do they? 

Greetings,
Joachim

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