Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:16:14 -0400
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> Currently this isn't networked. The problem is that if you network it,
> you may be looking at hundreds (and, in a year, possibly thousands) of
> redundant alerts. [...] A spoofed subscription on the other hand doesn't
> cost all that much for the LISTSERV site, and if it takes you a few hours
> to cancel it, so what. The victim will be flooded with Majordomo mail for
> weeks to come anyway.
Yes, I agree with all that. And, as you say it may not be a big problem in
the future anyway -- I just like the idea of my small site being able to
benefit from the wider view the bigger servers get :-). If you were to
include server-to-server notification it probably should be something that
happened only occasionally, say along with global list updates -- "LACTNET
has 1017 subscribers, QUICKDOC-L has 357, and here are the addresses of
four schmucks subscribed to all my lists."
A super-low-tech way to get the netwide effect could be simply to inform
the spoofee "you can leave all LISTSERV lists at once using 'SIGNOFF *
(NETWIDE'". One problem though would be making that message stand out in
the garbage filling his or her mailbox -- it would need a provocative
subject line ("How to sign off these damned lists") or maybe a cc to the
system's postmaster? That latter *might* be seen as a blessing ...
Anyway, it does sound like a slick feature.
Norm
--
Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and,
after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books
are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on,
still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling
men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. [Clarence S. Day]
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