List-Managers: Re: spammers and list confirmations

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Subject:	Re: spammers and list confirmations
From:	Brian Behlendorf <brian @ hyperreal . org>
Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
To:	Tim Pierce <twp @ rootsweb . com>
Cc:	Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>, List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<19991014234339.A466@ma-1.rootsweb.com>

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Tim Pierce wrote:
> Folks who use a mail system that supports extended e-mail addresses
> could conceivably take advantage of that.  For example, with qmail:
> 
>       To confirm, send mail to widgets-subscribe-09f8bc1d0a@example.com.
> 
> With sendmail:
> 
>       To confirm, send mail to widgets-request+09f8bc1d0a@example.com.
> 
> and so on.  I'm sure this has been tried, right?

This is how ezmlm has always done it.

	Brian

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Re: spammers and list confirmations
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