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Re: 14-year-old subscriber From: D. Huffman (perinatl@slip.net) Thu Apr 3 22:19:46 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Fred Smythe: "OB - Pediatrician Communication" Previous message: Diane E. B. Petersen, M.D.: "Re: catemenial pneumothorax" Maybe in reply to: Peggy: "14-year-old subscriber" One thing that many (well behaived) mailing list programs do is to send an e-mail message to the person who is presumably subscribing. This message has a special code number in it. If the person at the intended e-mail address returns the message with the special code, then one can be reasonably certain that the person at that e-mail address REALLY wanted to subscribe. (By the way, the automatic adding of someone to multiple mailing lists when that person does not want to be added is called a "mail bomb". It works best if the mailing lists to not first confirm that a person wants to be subscribed to the list. Mail bombs have taken down whole ISP's, I have been told). Finally, in order to prevent many of these messages from appearing on the mailing list and going out to EVERYBODY, the posts should have a DIFFERENT e-mail return address than the address one uses to post messages. Perhaps something like ob-gyn-l-repply@obgyn.net or some such. -- D. Huffman At 10:32 AM 4/3/97 -0600, you wrote: >At Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Peggy wrote: >> >>Regarding rmarts8499@aol.com ... the apparent 14-year-old girl who has >>somehow gotten herself subscribed to the ob-gyn-l and a midwife list, and >>now wishes for everyone to stop sending her mail ... >> > >In rmarts8499@aol.com defense... > >I removed 26 fake subscriptions to ob-gyn-l over a 5 day period from >last weekend and earlier this week. Last week, PC Computing magazine >had this clever article about shareware that you can find & use to >automatically subscribe somebody to over 600 mailing lists. One of >these is ob-gyn-l. Sounds like the midwife list is another. > >Once this happens to you, there is virtually nothing you can do except >give up on your email account and close it down. Else, you have to go >unsubscribe yourself from all those lists which will take days. Most >people don't have a clue what happenned to them when the e-mail >bombardment begins. > >There are now 3 or 4 list administrator e-mail lists dedicated to the >subject of e-mail list abuse. The predominant suggestion is to upgrade >your list processor so that you must send a second e-mail verifying a >list subscription request. > >In the interim, I have been monitoring ob-gyn-l every day for fake >subscriptions for the past month. I will be installing software shortly >that filters out suspicious subscribes and forwards them to me for >approval. > >Bruce > >-- >Bruce Speyer >Elecomm Internet Applications Home of OBGYN.net >512-451-2842, FAX: 512-377-5626 Physician Directed Network >URL: http://www.elecomm.com http://www.obgyn.net >EMAIL: bruce.speyer@elecomm.com bruce.speyer@obgyn.net >A Texas HUB and QISV > ================================================================== Dean G. Huffman Phone: 217 787-3745 FAX 217 787-0680 (Home) perinatl@slip.net 217 782-9666 217 524-2432 (Office) This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. H ================================================================== Next message: Fred Smythe: "OB - Pediatrician Communication" Previous message: Diane E. B. Petersen, M.D.: "Re: catemenial pneumothorax" Maybe in reply to: Peggy: "14-year-old subscriber"

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