Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 21/11/2010, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Then I can create a catch-all so that when an email is sent to
>>> forums-chan...@postgresql.com.au it finds the user "chancey" gets the real
>>> address and sends it on. If there were a way we could register a range for
>>> mj2 like accept all emails from forum...@posgresql.com.au then I think that
>>> solution would work well.
>> So any spammer that knows that can blast the lists at will?
> No, because their spam email would have to go through the mailing list before
> it reaches the forum and the mailing list would simply reject it if they were
> not subscribed.
Uh, how you figure that, if the mailing list has been hacked so that it
will accept mail from a large range of names that aren't in fact
subscribed?
regards, tom lane
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