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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Question for the team:  What exactly is covered by the spam_protection 
mechanism in Sympa (we're running 6.4)?  I ask because we're noticing an 
increasing frequency of spam coming in addressed to listname, 
listname-subscribe, and listname-unsubscribe addresses, and in looking 
over all the templates, it seems to me the protection doesn't apply in 
many places.

For instance, it doesn't appear at all (eg. there's no occurrence of 
"hidden_at") in list_menu.tt2, where the -subscribe and -unsubscribe 
addresses are published, which is resulting in many unwanted "Dear list 
owner, this user tried to unsubscribe but isn't found in your list..." 
notices.  This seems like an oversight, but then I don't even find it in 
the subscriber_table.tt2 (in case a list owner makes the subscriber list 
publicly visible, which would be a strange choice but entirely possible).

It looks to me like the only things it ever protects are the list 
address itself (in many templates) and the Contact Owners link in 
list_panel.tt2.  If that's correct, I would certainly request expanding 
the spam protection to, essentially, anywhere that any email address 
appears in all of WWSympa.  But I wonder if I'm just looking at it wrong.

Thanks much for your help!

     adam