At 00:28 01/09/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>The list of subscribers could be obtained by anyone asking for it.
>
>Giles
Any Majordomo list will cough up its membership list with one simple
command emailed to it. This is perfect for spammers. All they need is the
address of a majordomo mailing list and they can spam its entire
membership. Seems to me it's a bit of a hole in majordomo - I know very
little about the software but can this "feature" be disabled? I just
obtained the list of members for Olympus in a coupla seconds.... Currently
there are 274 subscribers.
I make a point of not replying directly to spam - the spammer knows he has
a valid address if you do - and my ISP has a pretty effective spam filter.
It cleans the newsgroups up too.
Regards
Richard
Richard Ross
Hemel Hempstead, England
rhdesign@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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