On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0600, Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >V>>This link https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
| >V>>is at the bottom of every message on this list.
| >
| >at the bottom of the page it says:
| >
| >"To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery
| >modes, get a reminder of your password, or unsubscribe from
| > Redhat-list), enter your subscription email address:"
| >
| >and then it gives you a block to put in your email addy... try it and
| >then follow the written instructions...
|
| I sent in the unsubscribe via e-mail. I don't know if it can be done
| via the web page (I'll have to look later). I don't remember it telling
| me to go to the web page when it sent e-mail back telling me that it
| needed my password. Nor do I remember it telling me how to send it
| e-mail in order to have it send me my password.
Generally this last is done via the web page.
| Why bother to have the password thing anyway, if you can get your password
| sent to you based upon your e-mail address? It should be able to
| unsubscribe you based upon your e-mail address, whereby it sends you
| a confirmation e-mail. That is how many other lists work. I've not
| seen one, until now, that wants a password. Sounds like overkill to me.
No, because email is trivial to forge. This way at least the real
recipient of the email gets the password, and knows what's going on.
Otherwise anyone could unsub you, and you'd no know why.
Likewise with subs - most lists these days do a confirm pass to ensure
the email recipient was the one requesting the subscription. It is not
unknown for some arsehole to subscript someone they hate to a myriad of
high volume lists - that form of attack is somewhat harder these days.
You _did keep the original "welcome" message, yes? Generally such things
have unsubscription instructions. I have a mail folder called "saved"
where I stash all such things as a matter of course. It's no trouble
and a useful reference later.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
As for COBOL, the only nice thing you can say about it is that
it keeps a lot of mediocre programmers off the unemployment lines.
- Bert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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