Since the privacy law changed about allowing members of lists to manage their
own subscription options directly, in the interest of controlling spam, the
Freelists listserv has had to allow more open access to our subscription page.
Previously any subscription manipulation requests had to go through the list
admin person who would extend the invite.
Everyone of you can change your own list subscription options. Everyone with an
email address has the option to join directly. So, anyone with an email address
can hit the listserv directly and make a subscription request. All of these are
still trapped and I still can manually make the subscription active.
This week has seen a dozen bots hit the listserv. Usually there are practically
none in a month.
Just thought I'd share.
