[ale] Help!! Ale is being abused

[Jim Kinney]

Fantastic!

As soon as I can get a larger screen, I'll dig into each complaint to see if it has the same email id which would indicate the server sent multiple copies, or if the time is different. The complaint page is in a negative size font 🤓

On July 12, 2022 5:17:10 PM MST, Robert Tweedy <robert at robert-tweedy.com> wrote:
>I've gotten a basic Captcha configured now on Mailman's main sign-up 
>pages (which is likely where the issue's coming from), so this will 
>hopefully lessen the problem. I'm definitely open to any suggestions
>for 
>improvement as well as donations of time to implement a better 
>spam-filtering mechanism to prevent the server from responding to every
>
>incoming message it receives (ie. Mailman either needs to be smarter 
>about what messages it replies to & what messages it just 
>ignores/discards without a reply, or we need our spam filter to also 
>work internally & keep Mailman from sending out spam on its own when 
>someone/something abuses forms on the site that could generate an
>email).
>
>On 7/12/22 18:01, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> Started getting these notices/complaints today and each one is a $5 
>> charge from my hosting provider. We're up to $35 so far today.
>>
>> I'm on work out of state and didn't travel with any personal gear and
>
>> Robert is also slammed. Can someone gently talk with the recipient
>and 
>> ask if they can simply delete/block instead of complain.
>>
>> We are open to ideas. That email is already blocked.
>>
>>
>> <snip>

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