On Wed, 7 May 1997, Elliott Parker wrote:

>     But the curious thing is that the address is not listed in
> FOODWINE subscriber list.  I have tried both scan and q on various
> combinations of "*law*" "*bahman*" et al.  Nothing.
>     I saw the note come in and immediately scanned and q'ed the list
> so he couldn't have logged on and off. Notify is set to no, but I
> don't see how he could have possibly unsubbed so fast.
>     FOODWINE is set open, confirm.
>
>     So my question is "How could he do it?"

Is your list set to "Send= Public"? If so, s/he does not need to be
subscribed to your list to send mail to it, and that is how s/he sent the
message without apparantly being subscribed to the list.

>     Do I need to change something in the header?

You could set "Send= Private" to completely exclude posts from outsiders,
or alternatively "Send= Editor" and "Editor=your_address,(FOODWINE)" to
moderate posts from non-subscribers.

Most spammers are not members of the lists or newsgroups they spam, so
that is the likely explanation.

John

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John Asher
Information Systems Manager, AIESEC United Kingdom
AIESEC LISTSERV Operations Team Leader
International Insight Support Team Member
http://www.aiesec.org/uk/infosys/
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