On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:56:11AM -0500, murr rhame wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>
> > When someone sends a message to a majordomo site that has it
> > send you 100 copies of each info file, to be honest, Murr, I
> > don't think the person bombed really cares about the
> > semantical difference you're arguing about.
>
> So we have one form of mail bombing that we can eliminate
> completely by using mailback. We have another form of mail
> bombing that isn't effected on way or the other by using
> mailbacks. Therefore we can conclude that mailbacks are useless,
> unsafe, worthless? The logic escapes me. The fact that other
> abuses are still possible doesn't change that fact that mailback
> confirmation prevents a common form of mail bombing.
Moreover, Chuq is talking about sending someone 1,000 copies of an
info file *once*. Mailbacks prevent maliciously subscribing someone
to 1,000 lists, thereby sending them thousands of messages *each
day* until they have themselves removed from each list, which almost
certainly has to be done one at a time.
Only a semantic difference? I don't think so.
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
