[4491] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Clearly a creative spelling that needs be added to trap Re: unsuscribe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Cuykens)
Wed Feb 19 07:08:27 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:20:08 +0100
From: Anthony Cuykens <acuykens@ulb.ac.be>
Reply-To: acuykens@ulb.ac.be
To: dave <tel1dvw@ups.com>
Cc: "Leslie A. Sherman" <shermanl@RTK.NET>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
dave wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Leslie A. Sherman wrote:
>
> > David is correct, but if you would like to get off this list,
>
> I'll tell ya, there is a hell of alot of bandwidth devoted to this
> unsubscribe issue lately. I think its all pretty futile.
>
> Maybe we should consider the reverse approch? If your message doesn't
> contain a few keywords in the body of the message, it simply gets dropped?
>
> This seems valid to me, because when the people subscribe to the list,
> they would be informed of this unique keyword(s), and periodically we can
> have a message sent reminding people how to do it, so all their hollering
> to the list has a chance to be heard.
>
> I hope this is clear enough; I'm quite tired :)
> Dave
Think about that: you will have no less stupid messages, the only
difference is that they will all contains on of the key word (if th key
word was security, this message is good but it doesn't speek of anything
about security.)
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