(OT) Mailing list membership

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>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.

For those who want to update old subscriptions including temporarily
turning off delivery, or subscribe, go the the URL at the bottom of each
list message.

Mailman also sends out monthly reminder notices to all list members
containing the e-mail addresses and passwords for all lists that address
belongs to (this can be turned off in the subscriber update screen).

Bill
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