Delist this person: From: petsupermarket

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 13 18:17:39 UTC 2006


Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:06 +1030, Tim wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:57 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>>
>>>I propose World+Dog is unsubscribed from the list, the mailinglist
>>>software is tweaked to address such problems and let everybody
>>>subscribe again.
>>
>>The trouble is that even if you did force everyone to resubscribe,
>>there's nothing stopping a spammer from doing so again.  Remember that
>>they're *receiving* messages from the list, but posting *directly* to
>>all the victims.  Any cretin can do that, and there's little a list
>>owner can do about that, unless they can figure out which subscriber is
>>the cretin, and that mayn't be possible.
> 
> 
> Reading also James Wilkinson's comments ("the list administrators tried
> putting per-subscriber data in the subject of a non-list e-mail sent to
> all subscribers, and got nothing back...") I understand now that this is

Err, I saw a list *member* try to do that, but not the list admins.
If the list admins would do that, then they could find out who did it.

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Mike
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