Judith,

At 11:13 AM 98/06/08 -0400, Judith Hopkins wrote:
>I recently sent a message to my list reminding subscribers to set NOMAIL
>when they are go on vacation or off to a conference.
> . . .
>Now the fun began.  A subscriber wrote to me saying that the last two
>times she had set NOMAIL she HAD been asked to confirm.  I therefore asked
>subscribers who had recently set to NOMAIL to let me know whether or not
>they had been asked to confirm.   So far the vote is:
>        NOT asked to confirm:           7 (including me)
>        Asked to confirm:               2
>
>Anyone have a possible explanation for this discrepancy (other than the
>latter two are confused about which list they were setting to NOMAIL!)?

Yes.  The two who were asked to confirm were using a web browser as their
email client.  There have been so many attempts to make mischief by sending
commands with forged return addresses using the mail programs built into
the browsers that L-Soft decided to require confirmation of all commands
sent from web browsers.

My first reaction when I heard about this was that it was very unfair.  But
I also see the need for it.  Our campus labs have both Netscape and IE on
all the machines.  I've received all sorts of strange mail from lab
machines.  Eudora is also on the machines, but for some reason, it doesn't
seem to be used for as much mischief.


                               Peace,  Dan

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