On Mon, 11 May 2009, Alan Burlison wrote: > Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > >> Someone had before suggested that, if there was such a way, it would be >> nice if any address subscribed to any opensolaris.org alias could post >> to all others, but I don't know enough about our mailmain instance to know >> if such intelligence in the tool is possible. > > There's a tradeoff there. At present if spammers want to hit more than one > list they have to subscribe to each of them individually. If we implement > the suggestion above they only have to register, subscribe to one list and > then they can spam them all.
I think the trade-off for simplicity of actually making progress in our community is worth it, personally. if this is possible, then I would like to discuss that as a proposal. (I'm not sure if this relies on the new auth system being fully deployed or not). Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
