[pmwiki-devel] ZAP News Machine & Spam

[The Editor]

Hi all,

Thought I would post a separate note here about the ZAP News Machine.
This program is a nice app for small to medium size mailing lists, as
it is very easy to setup, use and manage.  And being as it's in
PmWiki, it's extremely easy to customize and modify.  My concern is
its misuse.

If anyone has suggestions for how to prevent this program from being
used by spammers, I'd appreciate hearing them. Currently, I
deliberately left it using php's mail function, and have it sending
out messages out one at a time--as my needs are at best lists of only
a few thousand members. However, it would be very easy to modify the
code to use something like phpmailer and send emails directly through
the smtp server by the thousands. In fact, I'm leaning towards doing
that at some point anyway to allow bcc's and attachments in ZAP. But I
hesitate...

Any feedback on this before releasing the code?

Cheers,
Dan