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Re: Whats happening with this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Sat Oct 26 08:44:03 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:41:05 +1000 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft,com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <E0vH46v-0007Dm-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
> I was just thinking that with this auto-desubscrption without notification to
> the list manager, it would be real neat if one could email the list-bot for
> personal details and get a full history of (de-)subscriptions, with reasons.
>
> If traffic dries up, mail the bot to find your status.
> [ better still if you could ask it to forward all email in the interval :-) ]
>
> I'm interrupt driven -- with over 1500 messages/day I wouldn't notice if I fell
> of a number of lists ...
I would suggest that an any list manager that configured a list in this
fashion would be risking extreme danger of prosecution for breach of
privacy!
Remember - there is *no* guarantee that email comes from the person or
machine mentioned in the headers!
Robert Hart iweft@ipax.com.au
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