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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:56:07 -0700
From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To: Mark Filipak <filipak@mrincubator.org>
Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>,
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Subject: Re: Please confirm your request to join Gel_Candle_News
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:45:24PM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:

> They don't send the required response, Kent. Only an email from
> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG can confirm the request to join. This
> person could spoof that, but maybe doesn't know how.

The messages asking for confirmation indicate that you can go to
a URL, rather than send an email.  So the evil-doer just has to be
subscribed to the list in order to see the confirmation URL.

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