We simply changed the who command to something else and
only the list owners know it.
1.94 I believe will handle it properly.
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Michael Lambright wrote:
> I work for an Internet Service Provider. We've set up majordomo
> mailing lists (v1.9.2) for several of our users (mostly businesses), and
> have been requested by two different list owners that we disable the
> "who" command for their lists.
>
> It seems that the list owners are worried about their competion requesting
> a list of email addresses of people subscribed to their lists.
> This is understandable, given that the subscribers are all
> (theoretically) people interested in their products/services.
> Such a list would be fairly valuable to a company with a
> competing product/service.
>
> >From what I can see, majordomo allows you to configure a list so that
> only someone subscribed to that list can do a "who", but it doesn't
> allow you to totally disable the "who" command for a list.
>
> We're considering just writing some code to handle the problem,
> but before doing that, I just wanted to see if anyone else
> had come up against this problem and/or found a solution for it.
> (Or if there is a way to do this, and I just missed it when I
> read the documentation/FAQ/etc.)
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Lambright e u r o p a c o m m u n i c a t i o n s
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