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Talking about spam and stuff..


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () ourworld net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:28:35 +1100 (EST)


Hmmsies..

$ cat /tmp/nanoglist | wc -l
    2883
$

Ever since I subscribed to the list, I started to get spam. Which is
strange, this email accounts gets (a) staff email, (b) nanog email.
So a bit of snooping showed me that anyone can send the "who nanog" (or
"which nanog", I cant remember which one, I just sent both :-) command
to nanog () merit edu and lo and behold, the subscriber list came back.

So I'm asking the list admins to please disable the command, so spammers
can't just grab a user list.. and also, for people who run large email
lists, to consider doing the same.

Adrian





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