I've noticed --- with some alarm --- at the increase
in the number of forged subscribe requests to mailing
lists, over the last year.
Question:
Does anybody know of a method to prevent a mailbox
from being deluged by mail from a mailing list,
when the recipient is a victim of such an attack,
and still have that address accept mail from
mailing lists that they want to be subscribed to,
and also from freinds, neighbours and other people
with _useful/interesting_ things to tell them.
IOW, a way to set thing sup, before the deluge comes
in, not afterwards. << I just write a procmail recipe
afterwards, but what about before. >>
Related Question:
Since autoresponders are the norm now, is their anyway
to ensure that one's autoresponder isn't being used
to mailbomb another person? << A form of mail bombing
attack that occured to me when I read a subscribe
message to my mailing list, and then a request for a
file that is delivered by my autoresponder. >>
xan
jonathon
grafolog(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com
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