At 13:07 05/30/2002 Thursday, Richard Keller wrote:
>Can anyone subscribe to this list (in other words, a global list) or is
>this something for a
>select service area. If open to all make sure Subscription=Open,Confirm.
>This is one
>way to potentially reduce spamming because any subscription confirmation
>will go back
>to the actual address, rather than the spammer who may be spoofing the
address.
A problem EVEN WITH SEND= PRIVATE is that any one (or thing) that can
spoof the subscriber can then also post. As a matter of fact the KLEZ
virus seems to do that nicely even spoofing lists as a FROM: field to
other lists as a TO: field.