From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 8:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.94.6.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241A037B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA47449; Mon, 7 May 2001 11:57:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3AF6C3DC.6982B110@wmptl.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:48:44 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Isn't the freebsd.org mail server too paranoid? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > > > You got to figure that very few mail servers are as paranoid as > > hub.freebsd.org or else these big ISPs would be getting complaints like > > crazy, right? > > Not really... very few mail servers are setup as correctly as > hub.freebsd.org > > > There's already one layer of security in that you must subscribe, why add > > another that no one else seems to care about. Is it a Postfix or a Majordomo > > thing? > > No... without being subscribed, I can send email to any freebsd > list I wish. People do it all the time to -questions. > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Not entirely true; some lists are moderated and as such will not allow you to just post to them without being 'subscribed' (or otherwise priviedged), freebsd-announce comes to mind for example. Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com / webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message