At 10:02 11/03/2003 Monday, Erik Sojka wrote:
 > It seems that the scumbag's automated processes
 >also added the posting address of one of our lists to their recipient list.
 >Their spams are being sent to the list (but are being stopped by the
 >moderator not releasing them).

NO, they are NOT being sent to the list, but are being sent to the  MODERATOR=


 >My question is this:  I thought that we had set the List headers to not allow
 >postings from non-subscribers, and that anything posted would have to go
 >through the moderator anyway.  Is my understanding correct?  If a person is
 >not subscribed, anything they send to the list posting address should not
 >even hit the moderation queue.

Your understanding is incorrect

Send= Editor,Hold,Confirm

means that anyone in the world (unless you had SERVICE=) will have their
postings submitted for moderation.

Ben Parker of L-Soft had mentioned a particular configuration:

>I suggest Send= Private, Confirm  and forget the 'Review' Setting.
>You are right about the 'Approved' header line, but the ,Confirm setting
>forces LISTSERV to get confirmation every time.  With this setting, permitted
>users will confirm their own posts, they will not go to a 3rd party moderator.
>This may not be what you want.


in relationship to a question (and contex) about other by-pass of
moderation issues.

Actually, we had (and have)

DEFAULT-OPTIONS= NOPOST

with authorized posters SET either REVIEW (Ben recommended against that)
or POST.

/Pete