(OT) Mailing list membership

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:40:41PM -0800, Bill Campbell thus
spoke:

> FYI: The list addresses are not available via commands as they
> were under majordomo so commands like ``who filepro-list'' are
> ignored (other than sending notice to the list owner saying
> they were attempted :-).

The lists were available only if you set which access to 'open'
which for some stupid reason was the default mode.

In the 1.94.5 series you created a file with the names of those
who were allowed to retreive the list, and that closed that hole.

If you did not do that there was a patch to make sure the 
request contained a legitimate looking email address
[someone at somehwere].  closed is better IMO.

The 2.x is closed by default, and when the 1.9x hole became widely
known patches were made available so you didn't have to create
that workaournd private list.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com