[1401] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: A possible suggestion (wrt "Take me off the list")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Batie)
Mon Jan 8 15:13:10 1996
From: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
To: dclunie@flash.us.com (David Clunie)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 09:55:16 -0800 (PST)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9601061332.AA12592@britt.us.com> from "David Clunie" at Jan 6, 96 08:32:43 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> While such automated mechanisms have their problems when email
> addresses get differently munged over time, it seems hard to believe
> that this is as common an excuse as would be needed to explain the
> recent rash of "take me off" messages.
Perhaps the problem *is* a security issue (although not specifically www):
I run a couple of small local mailing lists at home, and I've gotten a
couple of subscription requests that were forged. One was sent to a large
number of lists and the other had suspicious headers. This is only
speculation however.
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