One of my Lists was "hacked" last week. One of my subscribers evidently caught a virus, and sent a post with no subject, and only a URL in the body. That was particularly bad because that subscriber was also on almost 50 other Lists, and Gerhardt had to do a global removal of the subscriber. I saw the same thing over the weekend on a List to which I subscribe. It is a growing problem, and we are helpless to prevent it under the instructions. I have been able to prevent this in my Lists that are gatewayed, because I have the gateways moderated. Everything that is going to the gatewayed Lists is sent to me first for approval. I want to do the same thing on my other Lists. Reading the Mailman Instructions, I see two ways to this: put the Lists on Emergency Moderation, or place each subscriber on Moderation. However, the Instructions say that; "It is recommended that individual moderation, like emergency moderation, will be a temporary setting." Is this cast in stone, and will I get into trouble if I make the moderation permanent? Is there another way I am missing? Carl Hommel

If you are referring to AOL spam problem, looks like Rootsweb enginers found a way to stop them. I haven't seen a single one since Thursday morning and I subscribe to more than 100 lists plus 20 I admin. I did ask Gerhard more than a week ago about the possibility of finding a way to steer these spams to admin for review for delete or pass. Guess they found another way. David Samuelsen On 7/15/2012 5:03 PM, Carl Hommel wrote: > One of my Lists was "hacked" last week. One of my subscribers evidently > caught a virus, and sent a post with no subject, and only a URL in the body. > That was particularly bad because that subscriber was also on almost 50 > other Lists, and Gerhardt had to do a global removal of the subscriber. > I saw the same thing over the weekend on a List to which I subscribe. It is > a growing problem, and we are helpless to prevent it under the instructions. > I have been able to prevent this in my Lists that are gatewayed, because I > have the gateways moderated. Everything that is going to the gatewayed Lists > is sent to me first for approval. I want to do the same thing on my other > Lists. > Reading the Mailman Instructions, I see two ways to this: put the Lists on > Emergency Moderation, or place each subscriber on Moderation. However, the > Instructions say that; "It is recommended that individual moderation, like > emergency moderation, will be a temporary setting." > Is this cast in stone, and will I get into trouble if I make the moderation > permanent? Is there another way I am missing? > Carl Hommel > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >