You make some excellent points. We do have all subscribers sent to REVIEW,
which should allow us to catch any bad intentions before they get
propagated.

Julia


On 9/20/06 5:03 PM, "Hal Keen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Normally, people who join our lists don't make special requests, but this
>> person made the following settings requests: FULLHDR, NOACK, NOREPRO,
>> CONCEAL.
> 
> I second Paul Russell's opinion: the subscriber is experienced with
> LISTSERV. If this were a spammer, setting up as a subscriber to send junk, I
> don't see why FULLHDR would be requested, unless it were to throw our
> guesses off. That seems more sophisticated than most spammers, and contrary
> to their usual practice of simply sending from a nonexistent address.
> 
>> What's odd about this is that our list is pretty exclusively an
>> announcements-only list -- in other words, people who belong to the list
>> don't post (although they can) and the only posts to the list are by the
>> owners sending out information about upcoming events or news items.
> 
> If your list doesn't default new subscribers to REVIEW, you might consider
> (quietly) setting that option as well, if you don't want to trust this
> person. My lists have it as a default option, and subscribers get "promoted"
> to NOREVIEW when they send something appropriate, or when they've been
> receiving mail long enough that I think they're really interested.
> 
> Hal Keen