Mr Ryan's auto-responder problem ... (Re: [ltp] Plese turn off James Ryan's auto responder!)

[Bob Alexander]

Aaron Mulder wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Bob Alexander wrote:
> 
>>eh eh eh eh ... you're a genius !!! I would also subscribe him to a lot 
>>of other lists on skinheads, foot feticists and mr. berlusconi's fan !!!
> 
> 
> 	So I just got the book "Google Hacking".  You'd think we could put
> together a simple search to identify all qualifying mailing list sites in
> the world.  They all have the same UI, including a subscription form with
> fields that appear to always have the same name.  My first attempt found
> 570,000 Mailman subscription pages.
> 
> 	Oh, dear.  This is such a bad idea.  No one should even consider
> doing such a thing!
> 
> Aaron

Aaron,
the only catch here is the the replies with the confirmation string to 
the subscriptions would go to his mailbox and not be echoed to this 
mailing list or am I wrong ? If this was not true this mechanism would 
be quite flawed ... I am guessing if the LISTSERVS/Majordomos out there 
would be tricked by a Reply-To header directed to this list for example.

This is interesting me only academically ... at this point :)

Bob