[Mailman-Users] no confirmation required?

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, kalin mintchev wrote:

> right...  spamming about cancer awareness or wedding dresses.... si...
> i kinda explained that i'm aware of this argument...
> 
> the other option is to lose those clients....

The other option is to risk being put on a blacklist for running a 
non-compliant mailing list.

Forget spam. A mailing list that does not require a response to a 
confirmation before subscribing an address can be abused for a DOS attack. 
Suppose I don't like you, and decide to subscribe you to 1,000 mailing 
lists.

If they require confirmation, you get 1,000 confirmation messages and it is 
over.

If they DON'T require confirmation, you are now on 1,000 lists that you need 
to track down and unsubscribe from.

Explained this way I've yet to loose a mailing list customer.


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