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Subject: Re: Outgoing only lists: what is preferred?
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:37:59 -0600 (CST)
To: paulh @ imc . org (Paul Hoffman)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <v03101710af3295e72cdb@[165.227.249.100]> from "Paul Hoffman" at Feb 20, 97 04:03:48 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Paul Hoffman writes: ]
> 
> I have a Majordomo 1.94 list that is for announcements only, not for
> discussion. Because I'm worried that someone will spoof my address to send
> mail to the list, I comment out the alias for the list in /etc/aliases most
> of the time. When I want to send a message, I uncomment the alias, send the
> message, and recomment the alias.
> 
> I got in this habit from 1.93. Is 1.94 reasonably unspoofable? Is there a
> better way to do this under 1.94 and still remain reasonably unspoofable?

E-mail hasn't changed since 1.93, so forging e-mail is still as much a
hazard as it ever was. If you make the list moderated, then you only
have to worry about someone discovering your password.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe



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