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Re: LI traffic and a proposal
>>"Mrinal" == Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mrinal@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Mrinal> Hi,
Mrinal> Manoj Srivastava typed:
>> Before you start pushing security breaches down my throught,
>> please explain how is it any less secure than allowing people
>> to sign up to the list unauthenticated.
Mrinal> That's true - it isn't any less secure than allowing anybody to sign
Mrinal> up to the list. But it gives the so called ``spammers'' an advantage.
Mrinal> Normally, they would have to subscribe to the list, and post their
Mrinal> spam. (And receive a lot of mail in the process). But if this is
Mrinal> implemented, it makes their work a lot easier, because their mailbox
Mrinal> is not going to get flooded.
Huh? You seem to have misunderstood the whole password
scheme. Only *subscribers* get the authorization; and when you add an
email address, it is linked to you. And when you unsubscribe, *all*
your email addresses are gone as well (this is something that would
be excrutiatingly laborious for thaths to do manually).
manoj
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