[Explanation] Re: "STOP SENDING ME THIS SHIT"

[Robert Hettinga]

At 1:37 AM 4/18/96, Pat May wrote:



>
>      Crypto relevance:  This attack will be eliminated when more mail
> agents support public key crypto and the mailing list software can be
> modified to check signatures on subscription requests.

In my ongoing quest for net.buckyness I sent a subscribe message to the
synergetics-l list, and got back a password, which I had to use to actually
subscribe. It looked like a majordomo hack of some kind...

Cheers,
Bob

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