On 5 Oct 2008 at 11:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... > But isn't what you did only possible because both addresses are > "@scottsonline" and your ISP knows about that name? So you computer will > receive anything addressed to that domain. The password for your mail > account is at the domain level, I think. I use a gmail account for this > list. I don't *think* you could do to me what you did to yourself > without knowing the password on my gmail account. In this case the > password is at the individual address level because all gmail users are > "@" the same domain.
More precisely, as I run my own mail server for scottsonline, I set up 'dummy' at that point - as a forwarded email address, which is the equivalent of what appears to have happened with our friend. So nothing at all to do with "domain level" passwords. But think about it - anyone can send an unsub request for someone else, either by telling their mail client they are that other person, or using the OOo address construction I can never remember :-) If mail is being forwarded, the final recipient will received the magic cookie that will finally unsubscribe the address from the list. I strongly suspect it actually doesn't matter who sends that back, but in any event, an address can be faked as above. > > My personal e-mail is @ a "hostname" on Demon (a UK ISP). A"hostname" is > a name you choose when you sign up with Demon. It must be unique within > the Demon world. Suppose you signed with Demon and chose "scottsonline" > as your hostname. You would then have available to you *unlimited* > e-mail addresses of the form > <user_address>@scottsonline.demon.co.uk > You can invent as many <user_address>'s as you like. Demon's SMTP/POP > servers will send/receive from/to any of them. The password on all of > them is the same because the password is for the "scottsonline" > hostname. It's up to you how you separate mail for your different > addresses. Using filters is one way. Using different "identities" > (Outlook Express & Thunderbird at least support this notion) is another. But that's not the situation here. If you'd like to confirm that Harold, I could set up a temporary test address for you here, subscribe it to the list, then forward email from it to you. I'm 99.9999999% sure you'd be able to unsubscribe by the above means (and in the 0.0000001% chance it didn't work, I'd knobble it on request or within, oh, say 24 hours anyway.) Let me know? -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
