On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Marshall Kragen wrote:
> IN regard to your explanation, I have always felt that listservs should
> be set up to bounce all mail to the lists from nonsubscribers so that the
> list owners can determine if it should be released or not. The Cancer
> Cure was an especially vexatious spam that showed up at a lot of places.
>
Unfortunately, the net result of all this (so far) is that folks around
here were spooked by this. Now how do I give them a real warning about
the XMAS EXE trojan horse that is floating around up here? (Answer: I
don't. It's an all Mac school.) Those who cry wolf...
And actually, I had assumed that lists were set up the way you describe.
A quick work-around is immediately evident. I know the name of the list,
so I can probably figure out the listserver program. I subscribe, spam
or infect the list with a _real_ trojan horse or virus, and then
unsubscribe. The alternative would be to require a 'manual' verification
for each user, but I wouldn't ask anyone running a list to do that for
each user.
And I still wonder what we should or could do to the person who started
this whole mess (even assuming that such a catch is possible).
Bart Schorsch Law School Network Services
schorsch@plains.nodak.edu (home) UND School of Law
bart.schorsch@thor.law.und.nodak.edu (work)
"You must be joking!"
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