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Hal Keen <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:03:48 -0500
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> Normally, people who join our lists don't make special requests, but this
> person made the following settings requests: FULLHDR, NOACK, NOREPRO,
> CONCEAL.

I second Paul Russell's opinion: the subscriber is experienced with
LISTSERV. If this were a spammer, setting up as a subscriber to send junk, I
don't see why FULLHDR would be requested, unless it were to throw our
guesses off. That seems more sophisticated than most spammers, and contrary
to their usual practice of simply sending from a nonexistent address.

> What's odd about this is that our list is pretty exclusively an
> announcements-only list -- in other words, people who belong to the list
> don't post (although they can) and the only posts to the list are by the
> owners sending out information about upcoming events or news items.

If your list doesn't default new subscribers to REVIEW, you might consider
(quietly) setting that option as well, if you don't want to trust this
person. My lists have it as a default option, and subscribers get "promoted"
to NOREVIEW when they send something appropriate, or when they've been
receiving mail long enough that I think they're really interested.

Hal Keen

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