Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: UseNet Gateway One Way ok? | Date | Mon, 26 May 1997 19:59:01 -0400 (EDT) |
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Letting the chips far where they may, I quote Marc E. Christensen: > >I took out their site for a half an hour last week when I sent them a >32meg core file. You couldn't ping them or bring up their web site. I >wonder how they got the Linux related mailing lists. (obviously they just >sent messages to majordomo with 'who <list-name>' in the body. Mabey the >lists should prevent this action from non-subscribers. They are complete >jerks. >
It works, but it's childish...
As for the list names... there was an autoresponder subscribed to the list: msinfo101@answerme.com
Subscribing such bogous autoresponders to mailing lists is legally actionable. Technically speaking, they don't have to fetch the list of addresses. They just set back and record every e-mail address that goes through the list.
--Ricky
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