If I were running a mailing list, I would consider it nobody's business who was
subscribed to it. Of course, there are other ways to find out this information,
but why make it any easier? Some of us receive on one address, which we'd
rather not have public, and transmit on another (I'm not subscribed to the toad
node anyway, BTW). It could be something as simple as not wanting your employer
to know you read cypherpunks. Nobody is going to go around doing a "who" on
every mailing list to find out if their employee/spouse/whatever is subscribed,
but it's entirely possible that someone will recognize someone else on the
broadcast list and start talking. I'm sure that's one message the script
kiddies will be saving.
I could have sworn that I tried the who command on toad a few years ago and it
was disabled.
--PH
Jim Choate wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Patrick Henry wrote:
>> Jim Choate wrote:
>> > As of today the current toad.com member list is below.
>>
>> I can't believe that 1) the who command is enabled on toad, and 2) that you'd
>> post all these addresses to the list. Talk about a massive invasion of
privacy.
>Not fucking hardly.
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