[ale] Help!! Ale is being abused

[Robert Tweedy]

I've gotten a basic Captcha configured now on Mailman's main sign-up 
pages (which is likely where the issue's coming from), so this will 
hopefully lessen the problem. I'm definitely open to any suggestions for 
improvement as well as donations of time to implement a better 
spam-filtering mechanism to prevent the server from responding to every 
incoming message it receives (ie. Mailman either needs to be smarter 
about what messages it replies to & what messages it just 
ignores/discards without a reply, or we need our spam filter to also 
work internally & keep Mailman from sending out spam on its own when 
someone/something abuses forms on the site that could generate an email).

On 7/12/22 18:01, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Started getting these notices/complaints today and each one is a $5 
> charge from my hosting provider. We're up to $35 so far today.
>
> I'm on work out of state and didn't travel with any personal gear and 
> Robert is also slammed. Can someone gently talk with the recipient and 
> ask if they can simply delete/block instead of complain.
>
> We are open to ideas. That email is already blocked.
>
>
> <snip>
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