Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:33:17 +0300 From: Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi> To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <a05100302b99199fb2f6c@[192.168.0.2]> In-Reply-To: <bulk.18642.20020827122309@hub.freebsd.org> References: <bulk.18642.20020827122309@hub.freebsd.org>
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>I would very much like to make this list subscriber-only. This will >cut down dramatically on spam and the inevitable misdirected >'subscribe' postings. >Comments? Suggestions? (Keep it brief and focussed, folks!) Do you know what the black hats are up to? I occasionally page through some UCE. I have seen many offers for mass-email software that can subscribe to mailing lists from a temporary address to do their dirty work. Temporary addresses are available from the web-mail providers on short notice. The subscription would need to employ some tricks to avoid subscription robots. (E.g "reverse the characters in this confirmation string and append a capital E to the end.) These excercises would no doubt frustrate several real subscribers as well. To add to the pain: The new "List-Subscribe: "-header makes it trivial to locate lists with search engines. -- Cheers, Petri Metis / Petri Riihikallio GSM: +358 400 505 939 FAX: +358 9 777 3028 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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