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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:50:11 -0700
From:      "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf@geoapps.com>
To:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: No more on the topic of personal Emails, I promise...
Message-ID:  <199807020430.VAA26723@baygull.rtd.com>
In-Reply-To: <359A94F8.AB3A7F4@aei.ca>

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On  1 Jul 98 at 15:58, Malartre  wrote:

> Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
> > 
> > On 29 Jun 98 at 16:16, Malartre  wrote:
> > 
> > > **********
> > > Subject:
> > >    Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:57:32 -0400
> > >    From:Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
> > >      To:majordomo@freebsd.org
> > > unsubscribe freebsd-stable malartre@aei.ca
> > > **********
> > > Subject:Majordomo results
> > >    Date:Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > >    From:Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG
> > >      To:malartre@aei.ca
> > >
> > > >>>> unsubscribe freebsd-stable malartre@aei.ca
> > > Succeeded.
> > > **********
> > > That sucks. It was a test to see how the unsubscribe work. All
> > > people can unsubscribe me(or anyother) from any list. This is
> > > playing with fire. I could unsubscribe everyone on this list.
> > > -- [Malartre]
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure it succeeded because your FROM: header matched
> > the address you were unsubscribing.
> > 
> > ----
> > Angus Scott-Fleming, GeoApplications
> > angussf@geoapps.com
> I can change my from header to your from header I think.
> no?

Absolutely.  I already did it once to the list in a related
thread (sent a message as someone else, but I _did_ leave my
own Org. and signed the message as myself). AFAIK nobody has
called me on it (yet?) ... we could certainly start some flame
wars doing this, couldn't we <evil grin> .... or someone could 
unsubscribe some of the low signal-to-noise folks ...


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Angus Scott-Fleming, GeoApplications
angussf@geoapps.com

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