Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:05:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk> Cc: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ok, look folks Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961009170031.8401A-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610091255.FAA22639@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > I've run majordomo before, I hack sendmail here at the office, I think I > > know what I'm doing. However WHENN I subscribed, I did so as blh@nol.net, > > NOT blh@dazed.nol.net, so yes.. I got a little frustrated with the fact that > > majordomo in its infinit crappiness, changed my subscribe address and made > > it a nightmare to unsubscribe. > > It's fairly easy to forge some mail from your original email address > to get yourself off these lists. I've had to do it several times. > Perhaps we should put it in the FAQ :) I don't think so, Simon. The folks I've helped have all had the same problem: they are signed up under a slightly different name. They all have various reasons for it, and they've all been real nice when I explained it to them. All I ever had to do was mail majordomo for the list of users of the list they wanted off of, then find an address that looked close, and show it to them. They then happily thank me, and unsubscribe themselves. The problem is not one of inability, it's that they don't understand how the mechanism could possibly fail, and they get frustrated. Telling them how to forge mail won't help anything. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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