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Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 13:56:27 +0300 (EEST)
From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: SPAMED again: Add LIVE Girls to your website!
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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> J Wunsch wrote:
> > 
> > As Gary Palmer wrote:
> > 
> > > ..., some
> > > smart bozos have realised they can get the list of addresses from
> > > majordomo ... instant spam list, guarenteed to have a large percentage
> > > of working e-mail addresses *sigh*
> > 
> > Jonathan, i think this feature from majordomo should be disabled.  It
> > serves no good purpose anyway.
> 
> 	changed it last night.  
> 
> 	i am not subscribed to either translators or aic7xxx
> 	here is what i get
> 
> >>>> who translators
> **** List 'translators' is a private list.
> **** Only members of the list can do a 'who'.
> **** You aren't a member of list 'translators'.
> >>>> who aic7xxx
> **** List 'aic7xxx' is a private list.
> **** Only members of the list can do a 'who'.
> **** You aren't a member of list 'aic7xxx'.

After what they will subscribe themselves to one of the lists and try
again, that is, the message provides the needed clue to get the list. It
would be better if Majordomo was patched to send back only something like:

>>>> who translators
**** Permission denied:
**** You do not have the permission to get the list of persons 
**** subscribed to translators.



> 
> jmb
>