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Re: Clearly a creative spelling that needs be added to trap Re: unsuscribe

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (G. Foulds)
Fri Feb 28 05:41:35 1997

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 03:41:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "G. Foulds" <gfoulds@asel.udel.edu>
To: Henry Lim Chee Wee <cwlim@ncs.com.sg>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3306FFFB.7A69@ncs.com.sg>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Henry Lim Chee Wee wrote:

> phoenix@clark.net wrote:
> 
> maybe what we need is to reprogramme majordomo to load as many
> variants of 'unsusribe','unsuscribe','unsus','get me off this 
> mailing list!', 'pls get me off!' etc etc etc......, maybe we
> really should come up with one webpage, with the BIG letters
> "UNSUBSCRIBE" printed there, and allow a textbox to just key
> in their email address. While we are at it, we could really
> reprogrammed majordomo to mail-bomb those with regular mis-spells
> of the word, and send them templates ( instead of instructions )
> on unsubscribing ( fill in the blanks, how nice ), yeah, say
> in the ten thousands range?
> 
> -Henry-
>  
> " Not another IAMS(I Am a Moron Syndrome)!" - Grey
> 

Heh.. how about just changing the listserver to require all new 
subscriptions to type in the correct spelling 10 times? ;)   


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