On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:38 +0100, Michael Rueger wrote:
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:07 PM, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
If it is the result of a virus on some PC, then the owner of said machine ought to feel ashamed for having an unsecured machine.
or a Mac: http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/01/hey-apple-kids.html
It might also be a botnet that harvests emails from mailing lists and then reuses them. A reason why we always had the squeakland mailing list in full moderation mode.
Michael
I'm sure it is something of this sort, it sent messages 'from' at least 5 or 6 community members to many of the mailing list. Moderating all messages is a solution, and is the one I was (purportedly) using for the announcements list (more about that in a separate thread). I mentioned elsewhere that if this sort of thing becomes a problem then any solution will be an annoyance for someone and that includes total moderation.
First moderation is clearly an annoyance for the moderators, but secondly it immediately slows down the response rate to questions and other requests. For a list of the volume of squeak-dev I frankly would find complete moderation to be unacceptable and would vote for a change to another solution where proper authentication is required, accepted, and as non-onerous as possible.
Ken