EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount Will Be Closed

deadendaddress at cmu.edu deadendaddress at cmu.edu
Wed Jun 1 13:42:54 EDT 2005


>From the descriptions posted here, all you need to do is use a random 
string of characters ending in cmu.edu from any ip address on the 
internet.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ulf Rasch wrote:

> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:51:22 +0200
> From: Ulf Rasch <u.rasch at seppelec.com>
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your EmailAccount	Will B
>      Closed
> 
>
>
> Marco Colombo wrote:
> [snip]
>> Interesting theories. But they seem to backfire on you, since, according
>> to Mr. Jeffrey T Eaton <jeaton at cmu.edu> this list _is_ closed:
>> "The list is not now, nor ever has been, open-posting.  Posting is
>>  restricted to subscribers, or to those users local to cmu.edu"
>> 
>> Then it must be one of those lists that let you configure your sending
>> address, which is good. I must have done that at subscription time, and
>> later forgot about it.
>> 
>> Anyway it doesn't make much a difference, as you can see. Open or close
>> is just a policy. If you think of it as an anti spam measure, it doesn't
>> work. Sometimes, even advanced measures fail.
>> 
>> Anyway, given that the list is restricted, there's no point in
>> discussing...
>>  .TM.
>
> Well, if this list is closed then maybe the subscriber with the address:
>
> XXXXXXXX at andrew.cmu.edu
> XXXX at andrew.cmu.edu
>
> could be dropped from the list.
>
> Ulf
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