Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:59:23 +0100
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This was done for spam prevention of course and it is up to the LISTSERV
administrator to decide who is or is not authorized. The feature can even
be turned off, but you're probably right in assuming that most people
will leave it on and not authorize anyone :-) A typical large academic
site will have list owners who are known to the administrator and can be
trusted, and then any number of list owners who are completely unknown
and may or may not be trustworthy. You can authorize the ones you know,
but this is a slippery slope and the simplest solution is to authorize
none.
For occasional use (as you described), you could use another method, or
maybe install a copy of LISTSERV Free Edition on your PC. You can
configure it to accept DISTRIBUTE jobs from you, and you then need a
willing SMTP host (the only advantage is that you don't need to change
the scripts that prepare the job or worry about what the messages will
look like).
Eric
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