On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:47:03 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:47:29 +0200, Michael Polak wrote:
>> Clarence Verge wrote: >>> I like Glenn's idea above. >>> Please warn us if you are willing to do it and then >>> just delete /home/majordomo/lists/arachne. >> But if no one wants the mailing list, why there is still so significant >> traffic going to arachne-digest every day ? (well, I am not reading it >> any more... but arachne-digest appear in my INBOX quite often... still I >> don't have idea how the spam can get in, I deleted most of e-mails in >> wizards list, the originating addresses are not subscribed... it's weird...) > The spam is getting in because [EMAIL PROTECTED] > is an 'in effect' "open relay". > Anyone can send a message to it and it 'acts like' any other open relay. > So..... X > [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be 'blocked' > also.... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to setup so that only those who are subscribed > can send to it. > As for "But if no one wants the mailing list," > Many of us still *do* want t. > The problem is that many who are subscribed *do not* want to be. > Those who do not.... can't unbsub. :((( > IMO, > If you delete the entire list of subscribers > (both arachne and arachne-digest), and then only those > who want to continue to get the list go ahead > and re-subscribe........... problem solved. :))) Additional 'side note'.... The new 'welcome to the list' message needs to have a warning added to it letting everyone know that the unsub function is broken. Maybe just a link to.... http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/unsub.htm ;-) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/
