From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 09:11:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA20989 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:11:24 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA20983 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:11:13 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA17850; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:14:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:14:46 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199503281714.KAA17850@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" "Re: Yellow Byte CD-Rom Request" (Mar 28, 11:56am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Yellow Byte CD-Rom Request Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > using the 'who' command, you can get a list of everyone on each > mailing list. we can make the lists private, preventing this. then only > list members can use the 'who' command. I think this is a good thing. > so.....the cretin subscribes, does a who and unsubscribes in a > single email to majordomo, circumventing the private option on the list. True, but I think it will stop the 'casual' folks from doing these kinds of things. If there is a log of this person doing such a thing, there is more reason to come back and get him for abuse of resources than there would be if there is no record of how the names are found. Making them do more work to get names is a good thing IMHO, and forcing them to leave tracks leave us more room for responding with legal recourse if necessary. Nate