[Mailman-Users] subscribe without separate accepting it

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:11:06PM +0200, Futureweb.at - Patrick Bey-Neuner wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is there any way to let people subscribe to mailman
> but don't have to double confirm it?

Yes (allow open subscribes in mm_cfg.py) but you sure do not want to allow
this unless it's internal to your company.

I have gotten confirmation  from MAPS (http://www.mail-abuse.org/) that they
will now accept blackhole requests from people who run lists on the internet
with no three way handshake.

See this for details:
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/3wayhandshake.txt

Marc
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