On 20 Dec 2006 at 15:26, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> A while ago, we had a list of about 3,000 people (all internal, mostly
> students). It was set to *one* person being able to post to it. And then
> a worm came along, scraping addresses to put in the From and To fields.
That's why we always recommend Send=...,Confirm for announcement
lists. Or else use Maestro. Or both (using Maestro to send to a list
with Send=...Confirm bypasses the confirmation step by using a
password instead).
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