On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Richard Tricoche wrote: > > Is it really the end users fault for not remembering to visit the website > and click the link to unsubscribe for the day... or is it the mailing list's > administrator's fault for allowing this type of spam to work it's way > through to everyone of our mailboxes?
Both. You may notice that Red Hat's mailman implementation is quite old and in fact, they haven't even updated to the latest secure releases that are available via up2date. Makes one kind of wonder... They're running 2.0.1 and the RHN has 2.0.13. In any case, mailman does have options to detect infinite loops like this but even the current production releases miss a few. In the beta releases, the detection is supposed to be better and more cases will be caught. I've seen cases on my own server where an Exchange user caused an infinite loop. Exchange doesn't reply to the message but creates a brand new out of office message instead. Sigh... -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
