Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] cameradirect.com

Subject: Re: [OM] cameradirect.com
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 06:31:45 -0500
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:41:03AM +0100, Richard Ross wrote:
> Any Majordomo list will cough up its membership list with one simple
> command emailed to it.   This is perfect for spammers. All they need is the
> address of a majordomo mailing list and they can spam its entire
> membership.  Seems to me it's a bit of a hole in majordomo - I know very
> little about the software but can this "feature" be disabled?

Yes...it's a configuration option that can be set per list, and recent
versions have the default set to off for just this reason.


< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz