On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:23:03 EDT, Pete Weiss said: > At 09:03 10/24/2005 Monday, Rich Greenberg wrote: > > >As for the spam, I think the days of send=public are over. You should > >either make it send=public, confirm so that genuine posters will have to > >confirm posts or make them subscribe with open, confirm and make > >send=private. > > Also I would suggest that > > CONFIRM= YES Use With Caution. Much spam goes out with forged From: addresses, and many sites will report you to the various blacklists for this sort of "backscatter" spamming. Some spammer throws 1000 joe-jobbed spams, you send 1000 confirmation requests, you get your server blacklisted. At *best*, the confirmation ends up double-bouncing to the Listserv postmaster.