The fact that anyone can create a Topica mail list, import a few thousand
names, spam the snot out of the world and disappear is reason enough for
Topica to restrict the function to import names. There is no reason to
delete this function, just limit it to a certain number of names per hour,
day or whatever.
No spammer worth his salt is going to bother with a system that restricts
the names he can add to his hit-list to a few dozen a day. Few legitimate
list owners will need to add more than this except on a special basis. And
they can deal with customer service on such occassions.
-- Chris McEwen
----- Original Message -----
From: David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
But every time it's been suggested that Onelist or eGroups drop the function
to add people to lists without their needing to confirm, other listowners
get up in arms that there are some very important members of their lists who
never could have managed to join if they had had to confirm, for whom it is
too daunting to have to use the Reply and Send functions of their mail cli-
ents to answer a confirmation request, yet without whom the list cannot
prop-
erly serve its purpose.
