On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:59:21PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > I don't know how it happened, but just yesterday I was subscribed to > a mailing list by someone else. I certainly did not subscribe, and > somehow the list managing software for that list received the > subscription confirmation allegedly sent by me. I received the > "Welcome to the list" message and some info on how to manage my > subscription. I immediately used the information there to > unsubscribe from the list (it was one of the KDE lists). > > I know it can happen, so perhaps this "ponik" individual was > truthful.
The debian mailing lists work on a "confirmed opt-in" principle which
prevents subscribing somebody else's email address (but not malicious
forwarding...)
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==== Today's fortune:
MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development.
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