Hi Samuel,
for arachne I use several From's and that does not seem to
matter. So I think it does not matter whoever sends a thing to the list.
But the list itself is only been send to the subscribed members.
Beginning of January my regular ISP was down (that's why I tried to get
off the list) and i had to switch to an other ISP with of course a
different e-mail address. This had no consequences for sending to the
list :-) :-)
In theory the list is open for spammers... but in reality I never
received spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I would say: leave it the way it is now (but a way out of Arachne
would be a very good thing :-( )
CU, Bastiaan
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:56:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Dear folks on the Arachne and Nettamer Mailing Lists:
> I have noted with much interest that the Arachne Mailing List does not
> have a certain particular quirky problem which the Nettamer Mailing List
> does have.
> The problem with the Nettamer Mailing List is that it does not allow one
> to post messages to the list from a remote server by one modifying his
> "From:" header so as to indicate that the message is being sent from the
> address from which one is subscribed.
> When I am running PINE on my remote server account I can post messages
> to the Arachne Mailing List if I modify my "From:" header so as to
> indicate that the message was sent by "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The
> message gets posted to the Arachne Mailing List with no problem. Those
> of you who are subscribers to the Arachne Mailing List may take a look
> at the full headers on my most recent post to the Arachne Mailing List.
> You guys will see what I mean.
> The Nettamer Mailing List has a problem in this regard. The MAILER
> DAEMON for the Nettamer Mailing List always bounces the messages back to
> me at my remote server email address with a note saying that in order to
> post messages to the Nettamer Mailing List list I must be a subscriber.
> The Nettamer Mailing List does not recognize me as a subscriber when I
> appropriately modifify my "From:" header in the same manner as for
> posting to the Arachne Mailing List. I do not have a problem posting to
> the Nettamer List as long as I do it directly from my real ISP and I use
> my real "From:".
> Setting up a mailing list so as not to accept messages from those who
> have modified their "From:" so as to reflect the email address of a
> legitimate subscriber is a good feature or a bad feature?
> The advantage of such a feature is that it discourages spamming and
> immitative deception and other obnoxious behaviors. The disadvantage
> is that the feature disallows perfectly legitimate posters from posting
> to the list from their Unix shell accounts simply by modifying their
> "From:". A legitimate subscriber may solve this problem by subscribing
> to the mailing list from his remote server email address too. The
> problem with resorting to this solution is that he would be advertising
> also the email address of his remote server account to the spammers who
> harvest email addresses from the mailing lists.
> I wonder what might be the majority opinion as to whether a mailing list
> ought to have a feature for disallowing one to post to a mailing list by
> modifying his "From:" header so as to indicate the email address of a
> legitimate subscriber.
> There are several pros and cons to consider.
> All the best,
> Sam Heywood
> --
> This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser:
> http://browser.arachne.cz/
