On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:41:03AM +0100, Richard Ross wrote:
> 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?
Yes...it's a configuration option that can be set per list, and recent
versions have the default set to off for just this reason.
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