Re: Anonymous code name allocated. // penet hack

["L. Todd Masco" <cactus@bb.com>]

Doug Cutrell writes:
 > >So, in between my check and yours, Todd posted the cypherpunks hack
 > >telnet 25 and the anonymous id disappeared.  Hmmmmm.  I wonder how
 > >that happened?  :-)
 > >
 > >Thanks Todd!
 > >
 > >                        Rick
 > 
 > I'd like to understand what Todd's "hack" means... I assume that he's
 > talking about telnetting to the sendmail port.  But I thought that anyone
 > could unsubscribe anyone from cypherpunks by simply sending a message with:
 > 
 > unsubscribe cypherpunks obnoxious@jerk.com
 > 
 > It isn't even necessary to forge the return address, because majordomo
 > doesn't check.  I just pulled majordomo's help file.  It's appended below.

In my experience, listservers will clear any commands that don't come from
 the person affected by passing them on for processing by the list
 maintainer as a security precaution.  I had assumed majordomo
 did this, but I'm not certain.

	-- Todd