[Mailman-Users] Allow BCC

Jan Banan b at grabbarna.nu
Wed Apr 9 20:27:43 CEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 02:38, Jan Banan wrote:
> > This is an anti-spam measure.  You leave yourself open to spam by
> > allowing posts via BCC.
> 
> In all my lists I have set up so that only list subscribers can post. Then 
> there should be no reason to disallow BCC or? I don't see why I should get 
> spam to the list if only list subscribers could post.
> 
> /Jan

...because anyone can claim to be anyone in email... and most spammers
do not use their own email addresses.  They use someone elses (like
maybe yours).

 !/Jan





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