At 9:30 AM -0700 4/21/98, Andy Finkenstadt wrote:
> Is there any practical way of preventing this in the future?
Yes. turn on mailback verification on all lists, so addresses can't be
subscribed without confirmation from that address.
Or as I said to one list owner when he said he wouldn't do that because
the spam on the list wasn't bad yet, that attitude is like coming home,
smelling gas, and deciding to wait on calling the repairman bcause the
house hasn't blown up yet.
If you don't do mailback verification, unless you're really small and
really well hidden, the spam idiots WILL find you, and will start
force-subscribing people onto your lists. and you get to clean up the
damage, not the spammers.
but hey, the house hasn't blown up yet. Maybe it won't.... (grin)
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