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Subject: Re: list attacks
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg @ monkeys . com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:36:34 -0800
To: Benji Spencer <spunge @ spunge . org>
Cc: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:21:25 -0600. <3.0.5.32.19990318222125.00809100@spunge.org>


In message <3.0.5.32.19990318222125.00809100@spunge.org>, you wrote:

>Hello
>
>one of the sites that I run majordomo (1.94.3 on one, and 1.94.4 on the
>other) seems to be egtting hit his mass-subscribes. No, not the type where
>a lot of people are subscribed, but rather where 1 person attempts to join
>all the lists at a site.

It is probably somebody trying to subscription bomb somebody else.

You should secure all of your lists with an up-front subscription con-
firmation process (done via E-mail) in order to to minimize the damage
to the bombed party.


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

    "Ping can be used offensively, and it's shipped with every windows CD"
                                                  -- Steve Atkins



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