Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:22 AM 12/5/96 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On the mailing list which I admin, the list server software has been >modified to only respond to commands that will produce a subscriber >list when the command is sent from the administrator's account. It's >a safety measure to keep people's email addresses from falling into >the hands of email spammers. Any time someone attempts to do a >"who" or "statistic" command, they get an error message and the >admin account gets a message including the email address of the >requestor. > >This measure has reduced the number of spammers violating the list >substantially, and has also reduced the number of junk emails that >my subscribers have to suffer through. Well, I like it just the way it is. Spammers are dealt with easily: most E-Mail programmes have a 'trash' key. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!