I think part of it, is that in older versions of mailman, mail from non-members required a moderator to accept or reject the messages. Up till a recent upgrade, I was getting hundreds of these a week and having to click on the reject button for each on some of my lists. The current mailman software allows for non-member messages to just be rejected without intervention. I don't blame Bob for wanting to limit the spam in those days. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Dan Armbrust > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:06 PM > To: cncole at earthlink.net > Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Yahoo mail access to this mailing list > > > I don't understand the logic behind blocking the domain either. I > wasn't here for this history, so I don't know the problems that the > yahoo domain may have caused in the past - but I really don't > understand > how blocking the yahoo domain helps reduce spam. > > This message is the only one I have seen in the thread that seems to > give any technical info as to how this blocking helps reduce spam... > > http://archives.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/2001-June/02 7635.html And even that doesn't really make it clear to me how bots are sending mail to a members only list through yahoo accounts. Since this is members only - are you saying, that the bots (which apparently only use yahoo accounts) are capable of signing up to the list, and then sending spam from their valid, registered accounts? If the bots are this smart, why don't they use other addresses beside yahoo? Maybe the answers are already obvious to the pro sys admins on the list. I think this question needs more real facts than poll results. Why not do a 1 month (or less, if a spam problem develops) test run to see if allowing yahoo accounts is still a real problem. Then take a poll - with real facts backing up the choices of the poll. Arbitrary decisions like this seem rather draconian when people (like me) don't know the history or the reasoning behind the decisions that were made years ago. Dan -- **************************** Daniel Armbrust Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic Rochester daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu http://informatics.mayo.edu/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list