[vlc] Employment ads

[Diane Trefethen]

On 5/23/2012 5:46 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 05:44:24AM -0700, Diane Trefethen wrote :
>> This list permits posting by "registered users" only so cut the crap
>> about random spamming.
>
> Do you understand how email works?
>
> Try it yourself: change your From: to Bill Gates or Adrien...
>
Well, since only "registered users" can post to this mail list, you must be 
saying that this list posts comments from registered EMAIL ADDRESSES, not 
registered USERNAMES and that magsoft at videolan.org is the real eddress of 
someone on this list. And so are littlejohn at videolan.org, zorglub at videolan.org 
and vlc at videolan.org.

If that is the "random spamming" to which Adrien was referring, and since all 
the unwanted posts are forged as coming from videolan.org, there are several 
options available.
1) You can block all posts with videolan.org eddresses, at least temporarily or
2) You can advise these users to change their eddresses to another isp and then 
re-register the new eddresses or
3) You could implement a new procedure that only registered USERNAMES will be 
allowed to post. This would be more difficult since each registered user would 
need to be sure that his/her username appeared in the header FROM line, or
4) You could require BOTH username and eddress match the registered user list.

#4 would mean that a spammer could not just guess at random email addresses; 
s/he would also have to guess the eddress owner's username. That would be a 
pretty unlikely occurrence.