Wooh, hey, yeah, sounds wonderful.. just tell me one thing.. Who's gonna be held responsible? heh On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:29 am, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:57, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > > Very, very good idea, actually. I certainly know my friends and coworkers > > well enough that I wouldn't sign them up for somthing that they wouldn't > > enjoy or benefit from. To join relative strangers to the list is > > obviously a bad idea. But if the confirmation message included a note > > *from me*, whom they know, and then offered them the chance to ignore the > > message and not subscribe, or to reply to be subscribed, this would be a > > good process. > > Wonderful. > So "Wile E Spammer" of "Evil Spammers Incorporated" writes a little > script that does an invite subscribe of a few hundred throusand of his > "friends" with an invitation note of whatever crap he is sending out > this week. > > Isn't this basically just another form of open relay? > > Nigel.
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