On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:53:31PM -0600, Tim Wentz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list-managers list, but I can tell you what our list
> went through a few weeks ago.
>
> Our list was alerted to remarq's tactics a few weeks ago when one of
> our subscribers found a new message board on remarq that delivered
> the same messages she was getting from our list.
>
> What we found was: whenever anyone subscribes to remarq's "message
> board" for your list, their system sends a subscribe command to your
> list. All of the messages are archived from the moment the first
> remarq subscription comes through and they maintain a subscriber list
> gleaned from the posts.
>
> From the moment we realized what was happening we locked down our
> list, changing the config files to require admin approval of
> subscribe requests so that we could prevent remarq from receiving any
> more posts.
I found a better solution - I stuck them into sendmail's access.db as
"550 Remarq is never welcome here". Along with listtool.com..
Such wonderful companies just itching to make a buck off of someone
elses work...
David
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