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Subject: Re: Another big patch coming; input wanted
From: "Lazlo Nibble" <lazlo @ swcp . com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:34:41 -0600 (MDT)
To: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com (mw)

> I can see a small reason to limit the number of unapproved subscribes
> per message, and it might be worth it only because I can probably do it
> in just a few lines.  [...]  The real problem is that any spammer with
> three functioning brain cells (which, I suppose, eliminates half of
> them) would send the subscribes one to a message after the first error.

Ah, but the folks behind these bogus subscribe storms never see the errors
anyway -- they're forging the email, so automatic replies are going to the
forged addresses, not their real accounts.

I do agree that the forced confirmations will be much more useful in general,
though.

-- 
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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