On 4 Jan 2008 at 22:16, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 20:05:34 PM -0000, mike scott ... > > There's one almighty great snag to such a scheme: it could potentially > > be used by anyone so minded to mail-bomb hapless users unconnected with > > OOo. The problem being there is no way to determine if the sender > > address is genuine. The present system, for all its faults, should at > > least make someone suspicious if anyone were to try such a thing. > > Beg your pardon?
Different scenario (fictitious characters :-) ): Mike, that well known opponent of OOo, sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] assorted mail queries with assorted different topics, all purporting to be from an unsubscribed user [EMAIL PROTECTED], shall we say. Easy peasy. Nice people on the list submit various answers to the queries. Autoresponder forwards answers for each query to mfioretti. mfioretti hasn't a clue why he should be receiving various answers about a product called OOo that he's never heard of. He spends much time deleting them, getting more and more angry. mfioretti gets upset with "the OOo people" who keep sending him stuff he doesn't want - and eventually OOo gets much bad publicity. /And reasonably so/ in this scenario. Or something like that. Email addresses are readily forgeable - it's why the list subscription requires confirmation. (Come to think of it, that's also open to abuse in the same way, although to a lesser extent) -- 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]
