Re: crosspost re remailers

[Matts Kallioniemi <matts@pi.se>]

At 15:43 1996-05-18 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At  7:07 AM 5/18/96 +0200, Benjamin Brochet wrote:
>>WHO IS THE MODERATOR OF THIS LIST ?
>>
>>I've been victim of a spoofing from a german.... he suscribed me to 2200 
>>mailing list... also I'd to be unsuscribed from your list !
>>
>
>There is no moderator.  I am just a subscriber like yourself (except I
>asked for it.)  Did you get a welcome message which included information
>like the following?

If he was indeed subscribed to 2200 mailing lists, you can assume that
he didn't read all the "welcome messages." For people who are stuck with
old fashioned mail systems (no filters, no macro language) this is a serious
problem. It would be rude to call the victims clueless and subscribe them to
even more "clueless mailing lists."

Matts