Re: Fwd: [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 21/11/2010, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> Then I can create a catch-all so that when an email is sent to forums-chancey(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)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 forums-*(at)posgresql(dot)com(dot)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