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Michael Paul Johnson (mpj@ebible.org)
Sun, 09 Aug 1998 16:25:18 -0600
For what its worth, I got the same message twice from posts on the "bible"
and "hnv" lists run by and "hnv" lists run by majordomo@lists.sni.net. Apparently, Mr. Pinson
angered many people by spamming them, then got hit with a classic
mailbombing by being third-party subscribed to a multitude of mailing
lists. I just turned the "+confirm" option on for the subscribe policy for
majordomo on those lists, and sent him a nice polite reply telling him we
did that, and stating that "unlike some unscrupulous people on the
Internet, we never send unsolicited email or post to inappropriate news
groups."
I'm not sure how secure the "nonce" majordomo sends back to confirm
subscription requests is, but it should frustrate at least some attempts to
use a mailing list as a mailbomb.
Spam is bad... but so is mailbombing.
At 04:33 PM 8/9/98 -0400, Lewis McCarthy wrote:
>Sandy Harris writes:
>>
>> Bruce Schneier wrote:
>> >
>> > Fascinating. Even ignoring the bad grammar and spelling, I'm not really
>> > sure what Mr. Pinson is talking about. "One of your members has entered
>> > a corporate e-mail your system to cause financial harm"; what does this
>> > mean? Is he saying that some third party has subscribed pinson@tfc.com
>> > to the CodherPlunks mailing list?
>>
>> I don't think so. According to majordomo, he's not subscribed.
>
>I've just sent Pinson a note explaining that he's not subscribed under any
>address I can figure out. Perhaps his reply will be clearer about the
>reason he's upset.
>
>-Lewis CodherPlunks Bouncer / List Manager <CodherPlunks-owner@toad.com>
>
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:57