Re: mail storm

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu)]

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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 07:01:33 CDT, Brett L. Hawn said:
> been victimized by it) and I can assure you that its quite horrid. Things
> like ListServ are completely broken and for the most part automatically
> allow anything and anyone to be subscribed (mind you they make you respond
> with some sort of moronic OK <code> code to unsubscribe). My old account,

This (requiring an OK confirmation) is configurable behavior for both
subscribe and unsubscribe, on a list-by-list basis.  The intent is to prevent
forged e-mail from subscribing or unsubscribing you, and to deal with broken
e-mail systems.

Or did you want somebody to be able to forge unsubscribes in your name and
you not even know it happened, much less be given a chance to confirm it? ;)

(BTW - netspace.org runs Listserv - maybe I should just forge an
UNSUB for Mr Hawn and see if he appreciates the lack of an OK.. ;)

Listserv may have many broken features (particularly with the handling
of Sender: and From: and Reply-To:, which aren't done in a strictly
rfc-compliant way), but its handling of list security and spamming aren't
among them....
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech



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