[1040] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Whats happening with this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Fri Oct 25 22:44:09 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:39:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
To: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961026093810.1375A-100000@numedics.transport.com>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
> I was just pawing through my nightly few hundred billion email messages
> and this one caught my eye.
That's my snappy charm. :)
>
> It seems rather odd that people don't have more trouble with email lists
> getting messed up, bogus people unsubscribing cool people, etc.,
>
> The fact that email lists like this one work at all is evidence that people
> are basically good natured.
>
> It is almost no trouble at all to unsubscribe a whole mess of people from a
> list, or to smoke a listserv with too much incomming/outgoing mail.
>
> One or two unsubscribes here or there is perhaps the most insidious thing
> someone can do because the list administrator probably wouldn't catch
> it. A whole mess of unsubscribes might be catchable, if the admin knows
> how to set things up.
>
> In short, count your blessings, and be good. :)
Accountability is going to become an issue on the Net in the next few
years. Anyone with any Unix background knows how to telnet into a mail
port a fake just about anything. Have you seen what's happening to the
news groups? Everyone has a little seed of anarchism in the pit of their
belly, the anonymity of the net seems to bring it out in people.
We have a terrible problem with fake email at work, mostly coming from the
Net.
< copious amount of snip-age >
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
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