"Professional" == Professional Software Engineering
<PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org> writes:
Professional> Mea culpa.
Professional> I just realized that a test message I sent to the
procmail-request was done
Professional> with a reply-to using my procmail config -- so the unsub
results will end
Professional> up being directed to this list. Oops.
Professional> background for the test message: I'm considering making a
simple web-based
Professional> unsub interface for the procmail list -- a place to direct
people to go
Professional> when they want to unsub and can't cope with email properly.
(By the way, I am the unfortunate user who had the email bounce
problem.)
Despite the fact that it's relatively easy to forge the "From:"
address in an unsubscribe (or subscribe) request, you still have to
know what you're doing. If you provide a web address to
subscribe/unsubscribe, and you have the ability to enter any address
you want, then it seems like this may give less-knowledgeable users
the ability to create tame "denial-of-service" attacks.
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