Re: IETF announce list and spam filtering

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Subject: Re: IETF announce list and spam filtering
From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:19:58 -0700
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208141654010.10972-100000@netcore.fi> (Pekka Savola's message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:55:13 +0300 (EEST)")
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Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi> writes:

> So people know what address to use when they want to spam the whole IETF
> (just forge From: to be scoya at ietf.org or whatever, a couple of tries
> and you're in.)?

One would hope that the list has better security than that for posting,
given that Majordomo could manage to defeat that sort of attack ten years
ago.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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- Re: IETF announce list and spam filtering
  - From: Pekka Savola

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