Re: which @

[Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>]

I guess it depends on what you mean by news.  I have been suggesting that
max_which_hits=1 (or your actual number of lists) since about late 1999
or early 2000 when email farming became noticable to me.  Along with that,
I usually put "nobody@my.domain" as the first entry in all my membership
files.  Nobody is of course aliased to /dev/null, so even if the addess
as the first match in the first list is farmed, the spam to "nobody" goes
immediately to the internet black hole.

The functionality of which=list in the individual listname.config files
only determines whether a match from that list will be returned to the
requestor.  In the case of matching "@" as that requestor, the max number
of addresses returned is governed by the majordomo.cf max_which_hits.
Unfortunately, 0 (zero) is interpretted as unlimited rather than "none".

Dan Liston

Tom Lettington wrote:
> I found out the hard way that which_access = list does not limit which 
> access to list members and $max_which_hits = 0; does not limit which 
> hits (although majrodomo@greatcircle.com does seem to have a functioning 
> match limit of 2).
> 
> It seems the only way I can protect my list's email addresses from 
> prying eyes (as in SPAMMERS) is to use which_access = closed.
> 
> Is this news to the members of this list?
>