At 1:55 PM -0600 12/28/96, Eric Thomas wrote: >>From the 1.8c release notes: > >********************************************************** >* Security: Automatic detection of spoofed subscriptions * >********************************************************** snippage... >Starting with version 1.8c, LISTSERV is now able to detect these >"spoofed" subscription attacks automatically. When more than 50 >subscription requests are received from the same account in a short time >frame, LISTSERV automatically undoes all the subscription requests and >rejects any further subscription attempt for a certain period of time. Eric: Why 50? I can't imagine anybody having a good reason to mass-subscribe to 49 mailing lists at the same time. Why not set the threshold to 10 or 5 or 2 ? __________________________________________________________________ Brian Crawford Chicago [log in to unmask] New baby pix (12/7/96)--> http://www.mcs.net/~crawford/sheridan/