On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Glenn Alperin wrote:

> subscribe listname . .
>
> Might as well be equivalent to subscribing as anonymous.  The only way to
> actually control this is to have subscription by owner, and for security
> reasons, validate=all would be helpful to to prevent somebody from
> spoofing your address to sign either themself or other people to your
> list.

But with subscribe by_owner for this reason, you now defeat the 'confirm',
and could subscribe bogus addresses.  It is unfortunally, a choice you
have to make. :(

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