Re: dont mail me any more

Eric Smith (eric@brouhaha.com)
31 Oct 1996 20:53:46 -0000

c689526@showme.missouri.edu wrote:

> please do not keep emailing me. I got onto your list by mistake

I keep forgeing unsubscribe messages for people like this. How are all
these people getting subscribed? Is someone doing it maliciously? Can
someone search the mail logs on the mail server at redhat.com and figure out
what is going on?

Some mailing lists now send you a single message when you try to subscribe
that has a magic cookie, and you have to follow the instructions to send
back the cookie if you really want to subscribe. It seems that that would be
a good idea for this list.

Note that the magic cookie thing needs to be set up so that just replying
won't complete the subscription; the user must do something manually like
copy the cookie from the body of the message to the subject header of the
reply, or reply to a different address.

Cheers,
Eric

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