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