[ale] Help!! Ale is being abused

[Derek Atkins]

Another option is to turn off handling of email-based subscription
requests and require going through the web interface?

-derek

On Tue, July 12, 2022 8:17 pm, Robert Tweedy via Ale 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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