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"Michael R. Gettes" <GETTES@PUCC>
Fri, 22 Sep 89 09:43:53 EDT
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On Fri, 22 Sep 89 14:00:09 GMT Eric Thomas said:
>Fine, now any  self-respecting hacker can send  an AFD FOR *@* DEL  * * *
>from the postmaster userid to your server, and zzzap, all AFD's gone in a
>matter of seconds. But then, who cares about security?
>
>  Eric
 
So, are you saying that it is trivial for a hacker to look like the postmaster
to listserv without actually getting onto the postmaster account or listserv?
If this is so, that is security whole that should certainly be fixed.
If it is necessary for someone to actually get on to listserv or get on
to a postmaster account to do this then I do not see this as a security
breach.
 
/mrg

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