Great Circle Associates Majordomo-Users
(December 1997)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: Eudora/Approved:
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:08:53 -0800
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <ufawwh04g9i.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu>
References: Jered J Floyd's message of 20 Dec 1997 02:29:05 -0500<XFMail.971219233030.jb@jbarchuk.com><ufayb1g4hvh.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu><s56soroscam.fsf@the-great-machine.mit.edu>

At 11:37 PM -0800 12/19/97, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> things working today, and when a suggested solution was a procmail wrapper
> which would most likely sit at an address and auto-approve things,
> semimoderation seems just as good.

The procmail can do some sanity checking, though, including things like
checking Received lines to make sure the address AND the source are
appropriate. They can forge the address, but it's harder (albeit not
impossible) to also forge things like the routing info.


--
         Chuq Von Rospach (chuq@apple.com) Apple IS&T Mail List Gnome
                 <http://www.solutions.apple.com/ListAdmin/>

 Plaidworks Consulting (chuqui@plaidworks.com) <http://www.plaidworks.com/>
   (<http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/> +-+ The home for Hockey on the net)





References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: message_footer
From: Justice for Children of Divorce <j4cd@cron-2.mco.on.ca>
Next: [no subject]
From: "Milton Calnek" <milton@eeyore.killarney.sask.net>
Indexed By Thread Previous: Re: Eudora/Approved:
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
Next: Re: Eudora/Approved:
From: jim barchuk <jb@jbarchuk.com>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com