Date: 07 Jan 1999 23:50:53 -0500 From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Graeme Cross <graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New Majordomo Feature Message-ID: <xlx3e5mgyfm.fsf@gold.cis.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells"'s message of "Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:52:06 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901071548290.1897-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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"Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> writes: > Perhaps. I say that we already trust ourselves to not abuse the > lists. But there's no strong authentication feature in place. That requires overhead. As it is, someone could telnet to port 25 and pretend to be, for example, Jordan and spamthread "Re:". > Also, the description of the possible solution was incredibly > simple. As a check against abuse there could be a tally of > spamthread commands. Two strikes and your out. So you'd have to telnet to port 25 twice. :) > Nearly all of my spam comes from these lists. Granted, spam is a low > percentage of my total traffic. That can be (mostly) solved by closing the lists so that only subscribers can post... -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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