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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Welcome to freebsd-security
To: brian@wasteland.calbbs.com (Brian Buchanan)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 16:08:58 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970207171726.9740A-100000@wasteland.calbbs.com> from "Brian Buchanan" at Feb 7, 97 05:28:03 pm
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Brian Buchanan wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Uh, why was -hackers just subscribed to -security?
> > > 
> > > Welcome to the freebsd-security mailing list!
> > > 
> 
> Looks to me like someone unfamiliar with majordomo tried to subscribe to 
> multiple lists with one subscribe command, i.e.,
> `subscribe freebsd-security freebsd-hackers', which majordomo would have 
> interpreted as "subscribe the email address `freebsd-hackers' to list 
> `freebsd-security'."

	exactly, and then the postmaster failed to notice the error
	and approved the subscription request....ugh.
jmb