Tue, 16 Jun 1992 13:17:01 EDT
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1992 12:18:00 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Tue, 9 Jun 1992 15:59:24 EDT Bill Gruber <BIGCU@CUNYVM> said:
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>>>2) Is there any way for me, a lowly list owner, to update these files
>>>directly? My Listserv administrator tells me that I can't, must go
>>>through him, and this creates a long delay with many iterations to try
>>>out changes.
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>>Yes, you can do it yourself if the listserv administrator is willing to
>>play along... it's a bit kludgy, but it does work.
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>It is an enormous security exposure to allow list owners to update
>mailforms directly (even if you trust the list owners - origins are easy
>to fake).
>
> Eric
Isn't that what list passwords are for? What is the exposure that is
greater than being able to modify and update a filelist, using a password,
or to update files on a fileserver?
Paul
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