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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