On Mi, 21 iul 10, 16:37:53, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > You replied to me personally only, not sure if that was on intention. I saw your mail in my Inbox first, not in the debian-www folder and didn't notice debian-www was in CC. There is no need to CC me if you reply to debian-www. > * Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> [2010-07-21 16:34:59 CEST]: > > On Mi, 21 iul 10, 10:52:17, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > How does that prevent abuse in any way? Spammers use random email > > > addresses all the time, and if someone is out to abuse this would be the > > > first thing to do anyway? > > > > This is not about spam, but about people listing/unlisting others > > without permission. > > I know that it's not about spam, I just mentioned it as an example - > people still can list/unlist others without permission by faking a > sender address if they really would like to abuse it. > > > We get requests from foo@example.com to change the listing for > > bar@domain.com, there is no way for us to know the request is > > legitimate and have to ask back. Do you have a better idea/wording? > > What I am saying is that asking back is needed anyway, it should be > part of the workflow. That's the same reason why mailing list > subscription isn't done out of the blue and requires confirmation. A confirmation from the same different address is also useless or am I misunderstanding your point? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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