At 13:07 05/30/2002 Thursday, Richard Keller wrote:
 >Can anyone subscribe to this list (in other words, a global list) or is
 >this something for a
 >select service area.  If open to all make sure Subscription=Open,Confirm.
 >This is one
 >way to potentially reduce spamming because any subscription confirmation
 >will go back
 >to the actual address, rather than the spammer who may be spoofing the
address.

A problem EVEN WITH SEND= PRIVATE is that any one (or thing) that can
spoof the subscriber can then also post.  As a matter of fact the KLEZ
virus seems to do that nicely even spoofing lists as a FROM: field to
other lists as a TO: field.