Ooohh, I don't like that idea much. Every mailing list that I've archived requires confirmation - not because the lists are "private" but to keep pranksters from subscribing others using the web page sign up form.
As an aside, I have noticed also that spammers go through the archives looking for e-mail addresses. A lot of listserves put a footer on the messages saying to send a blank message to some generated address in order to unsubscribe. So the spammer sends a message to that address, and some poor befuddled listserve subscriber finds himself unsubscribed! This really isn't Mail Archive's problem; the only solution for that is for listserves to eliminate that footer message or give alternate instructions for unsubscribing. William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859 +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Breidenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Art McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 19 February, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: [Gossip] RE: do people use the confirmation archive? Hi all, I got a random email from Art McGee, suggesting that I remove access to the archive@mail-archive.com archive - this is where "subscribe confirmation" messages go from list servers such as Mailman. The theory is, we'd potentially eliminate an abuse path. (i.e. someone accidentally or maliciously subscribes a private list to the service) For lists with subscribe confirmation notices, it just wouldn't work. Only a list admin capable of bypassing the confirmation feature would be able to use mail-archive in that case. The question is, in practice, would such a change affect legitimate users? There aren't very many abuse cases as far as I'm aware, so I want to see what the impact would be on regular service users. How many of you would such a change have caused difficulty for? I see plenty of confirmation messages, so I'm a little worried about the impact. Consider this a survey. -Jeff As a reminder, we are talking about this: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#newlist _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
