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SubjectRe: Complaint
I have today received far more than 11 of these requests. I agree with Stefan that
this has to stop immediately.

Stefan Mars wrote:

> Dear sir,
>
> I am on a mailing list called "linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu" that
> recently has been spammed from your site. It seems that someone has tried
> to add that mailing list to several mailinglists that is served by
> majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu. First, I don't believe that the linux-kernel should
> be on that mailing list, it's enough high traffic as it is, but secondly
> and more importantly majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu is sending requests for
> confirmation to linux-kernel, thereby spamming quite a lot of people's
> mailboxes.
>
> So far I have counted 11 of those requests, and I have included one of
> them below for reference.
>
> I was hoping that you, as root of the site running the majordomo, could do
> something about it, as it is quite annoying.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan Mars
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:02:59 -0500 (EST)
> From: majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Confirmation for subscribe lib-opac
>
> --
>
> Someone (possibly you) has requested that your email address be added
> to or deleted from the mailing list "lib-opac@po.CWRU.Edu".
>
> If you really want this action to be taken, please send the following
> commands (exactly as shown) back to "majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu":
>
> auth 8fa64d67 subscribe lib-opac linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>
> If you do not want this action to be taken, simply ignore this message
> and the request will be disregarded.
>
> If your mailer will not allow you to send the entire command as a single
> line, you may split it using backslashes, like so:
>
> auth 8fa64d67 subscribe lib-opac \
> linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>
> If you have any questions about the policy of the list owner, please
> contact "lib-opac-approval@po.CWRU.Edu".
>
> Thanks!
>
> majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu




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