On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, dbarret...@netscape.net <dbarret...@netscape.net> wrote: > That there even is a confirm is madness.
No. Imagine if the process had no confirmation and if troublemakers could just read the list, compile a list of messages, and procees to unsubscribe everyone, one by one. The purpose of the confirmation e-mail for mailing list request is obvious: to confirm that is the actual owner of the account who is requesting administrative actions on his account. Imagine if your bank provided a hotline for closing your bank account that would just ask "enter your account number to close it", and then you dialed the number and the result would be "ok, your bank account has been closed". Now think of the abuse that would cause if anyone could dial and close other people´s bank accounts. What you´re asking for is the same. In e-mail, the only way -actually the simpler one- to confirm a web request actually originates from a given email address´ owner is to send a confirmation email to that address. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
