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Article #328Re: Electronic Harassment
From: Jim W Lai
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 18:59
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 18:59
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Michael Linksvayer writes: > Would not this problem be virtually eliminated if the maintainers of > mailing lists would only subscribe an account if the request for > subscription came from that account? Naive systems would be fooled by forged email, however. If the mail is coming from the same site/machine on a Unix system, the userid can be forged rather trivially. Callback (i.e. sending a verification message and query) would reduce the problem however. Jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!limbo!taylor From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Electronic Harassment Message-ID: <1697@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 31 Jan 91 18:59:10 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 11 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com