RECENT SPAMS TO POSTERS ON GRASS-L

Justin Hickey jhickey at impact1.hpcc.nectec.or.th
Thu Nov 4 09:45:08 EST 1999


On Nov 4,  8:22am, Bernhard Sturm (Privat) wrote:
> In what way are those lists protected?

Not at all! Simply sending the WHO command to majordomo will return a list of
all subscribers. This is useful at times for analyzing list membership but as
we saw, someone with the right knowledge can use the addresses for spamming and
faking authors of e-mail.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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