On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Tim Pierce wrote:
> Agreed. But you shouldn't vacation-reply to a subscribe confirmation
> message, either, or it defeats the whole purpose. I believe that
> anyone running a BSD vacation program could be forge-subscribed to
> this list, since ezmlm is basically guaranteed to get a confirmation
> from them.
>
> Again, I'm not talking about mail on the list, I'm talking about the
> subscribe confirmation message.
This is why I don't use "vacation". IMHO, you know that I have received an
E-mail and read it when you receive my reply, no earlier.
I reguarly use the ezmlm feature to unsubscribe users on any ezmlm
list that vacation reply to the list.
I agree that this foils the subscribe reply, and maybe the users address
should go into e.g. a Cc: header instead of To:.
-Sincerely, Fred
Fred Lindberg, Inf. Dis., WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA
