On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, Nathan Brindle wrote:
 
> The answer is to set your list
>
> *Subscription= Open,Confirm
>
> That will block the bogus subscriptions while making it possible for
> legitimate users to subscribe via the "cookie" (OK) method.
 
  That is a good point Nathan...  Looks like a lot of the damage
has already been done in this case just from glancing at mail here
and on lstown-l...and looking at my listserv logs...sigh.
 
  There was a ldbase job I used to be able to send to listserv
back in our VM days from the postmaster userid.  This was a netwide
deletion.  If I remember correctly the last time I tried it, it didn't
work and I got mail from Eric saying that after doing some stats
it just didn't justify the resource it used up.  That made sense at
the time.  I was just thinking though, this would be a good time
to put together such a job since so many places have been hit....well,
maybe not. :-)
 
Cheers!  --Trish