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Subject: Re: Directed attacks on mailing lists (?)
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg @ monkeys . com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 19:29:53 -0800
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of 24 Dec 1997 19:02:52 -0800. <m3iusektur.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>


In message <m3iusektur.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>, 
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

>>     b) Do existing mailing list administration packages cause all subscrip-
>> 	tion requests to be archived (along with full headers) so that cases
>> 	such as the one I just mentioned can be properly traced back to
>> 	their true origin IP address?
>
>No.  majordomo, for one, doesn't retain any header information at all.

Next question... Who would be in a position to remedy this obviously
substantial and serious shortcoming?

-- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc.
-- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/
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