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Subject: Re: which @
From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah @ cloud . ccsf . cc . ca . us>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:22:42 -0800 (PST)
To: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Cc: Tom Lettington <tom @ tfl . net>, majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3E56A0B4.2030207@sonny.org>

Obviously you have not patched your MJ @ hole;)  Here is the patch:

  ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-patches/1.94.5/majordomo.1

Read the top 10 lines for instructions.

Regards,

Joe
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Daniel Liston wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:57:08 -0600
> From: Daniel Liston <dliston@sonny.org>
> To: Tom Lettington <tom@tfl.net>
> Cc: majordomo-Users@greatcircle.com
> Subject: Re: which @
> 
> 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?



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