At 1:55 PM -0600 12/28/96, Eric Thomas wrote:
>>From the 1.8c release notes:
>
>**********************************************************
>* Security: Automatic detection of spoofed subscriptions *
>**********************************************************
snippage...
>Starting with version 1.8c, LISTSERV is now able to detect these
>"spoofed" subscription attacks automatically. When more than 50
>subscription requests are received from the same account in a short time
>frame, LISTSERV automatically undoes all the subscription requests and
>rejects any further subscription attempt for a certain period of time.
Eric:
Why 50? I can't imagine anybody having a good reason to mass-subscribe to
49 mailing lists at the same time. Why not set the threshold to 10 or 5 or
2 ?
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