Yes, but that’s not really the fix we want because it prevents us from moderating.

Jay Shorten


From: LISTSERV List Owners' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Weiss
Sent: 02 March 2016 15:33
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Subject: Re: Spammers bypassing moderation?

Sounds like you had a fix.  FWIW, editors and list-owners are not moderated in many circumstances.  Thus if one spoofs the editor, then presumably it would be posted.  Another form of moderation is "self" -- list subscribers are challenged to approve their own posting.

It may be that the spoofer will continue and you will need to employ more drastic techniques: create new modertor email addresses and .HH them from view.  It is possible that the astute spoofer esp. if they are also a subscriber, will be able to interpret the distributed email for the APPROVED-BY header.

Or perhaps interpret email headers, assuming that the web POST interface wasn't used e.g.,

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?P1&L=lstown-l

Pete
On 3/2/2016 14:28, Shorten, Jay wrote:
Recently we’ve found that spammers have been able to bypass our moderation by spoofing the approval, if that’s the correct terminology. When we changed the Send to...


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