On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Alex Belits wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> > Just having the list ensure that it was in the To: or Cc: header would be
> > sufficient in this case. Such a change would block relay spam as well.
>
> Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet
> use local lists to distribute this list among users -- this is why there
> are messages with no to:/cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the first place. And
> it will do nothing for autoresponders because autoresponder may happen to
> be subscribed directly just like anything else. So, real solutions are:
I'm confused. Some people can't send mail to the lists directly?
And it would fix the auto-responder problem, since auto-responders tend to
answer to the From: field, which would never be the mailing list's
name.
> 2. close the list, as it was proposed.
If the icky [EMAIL PROTECTED] address was subscribed, it would've still
gotten onto the list (though I suppose the virus scan response would've
been stopped.)
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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