On Wed, 10 Jun 1992 12:18:00 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Tue, 9 Jun 1992 15:59:24 EDT Bill Gruber <BIGCU@CUNYVM> said:
>
>>>2) Is there any  way for me, a lowly list owner,  to update these files
>>>directly?  My Listserv  administrator tells  me that  I can't,  must go
>>>through him, and this creates a  long delay with many iterations to try
>>>out changes.
>>
>>Yes, you can do it yourself  if the listserv administrator is willing to
>>play along... it's a bit kludgy, but it does work.
>
>It  is an  enormous  security exposure  to allow  list  owners to  update
>mailforms directly (even if you trust  the list owners - origins are easy
>to fake).
>
>  Eric
Isn't that what list passwords are for?  What is the exposure that is
greater than being able to modify and update a filelist, using a password,
or to update files on a fileserver?
 
Paul