[280] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Mar 4 22:45:38 1991
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 22:27:07 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: droms@bucknell.edu
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Ralph E. Droms's message of Mon, 4 Mar 91 21:48:45 EST <9103050248.AA15415@sol.bucknell.edu>
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure everyone will), but doesn't LISTSERV
only allow you to add a subscription if it matches the one in the
header of the message (as a security measure of some sorts.)
I seem to remember having a problem subscribing a local distribution
list (typically to stuff the LISTSERV list into a local netnews group)
and had to find a human at the LISTSERV end to do it by hand.
Note: I'm not pointing out a simple bug, but a real design flaw that
may be hard to fix (w/o making some hard choices.)
-Barry Shein
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