From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-05-09T01:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW.RUBYCONF.ORG

Marko Schulz <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:05:18AM +0900, Rick Bradley wrote:
> > * Dave Thomas (Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com) [020506 15:58]:
> > > 
> > > How did this end up on the ML - are they subscribed?
> > 
> > The ML isn't blocking non-subscribers from posting.
> 
> Which would be ridiculous because of the news-gateway.

Why - the news gateway posts as it's own user (which I believe is
registered with the list). I'm assuming the ml uses the envelope
sender, not the From: line.

> 
> > Anyway, restricting posting to subscribers would fix the problem, but
> > would probably alienate the portion of the subscribers who munge their
> > addresses to prevent harvesting from archives
> 
> Such a restriction is also a pain for people that use more than one
> address.

If we keep getting spam on the ml that spamassassin doesn't detect,
then I'm going to have to shut down the mail-to-news gateway, because
folks are complaining about spam in the newsgroups, and it looks like
it originates with me.


Dave