The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

What we do here is using the "visibility" parameter to simply hide the 
list from the list of lists page.
Maybe we could add - optionnaly - an "I am not a spammer" form as a gate 
to this page.

Cheers,

David

Eric G. Wolfe a écrit :
> We are still using Sympa 5.4.7 in production at the moment.  However, 
> I noticed this same problem in the Sympa 6.0 lists.tt2 file.
>
> Currently, the "List of lists" loops through the mailing lists and 
> uses javascript document.write(<list name> + @ <robot name>).  
> Recently our "List of lists" page was harvested and a Spam message 
> went out to all the mailing lists.  This message did not make it to 
> any of the mailing lists, but was instead stopped by our gateway Spam 
> filter.
>
> My concern is the fact that the page was harvested.  I am guessing 
> this is because the javascript output could easily be decoded with a 
> tiny bit of Perl and the LWP module.
>
> I'm curious is there currently any way to protect the /lists page 
> through obfuscation, or a cookie?  Are any list masters taking 
> measures to protect this page, from harvesting, on their production 
> systems?

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités