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Re: Debian is secure, the debian lists are not.



On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 05:52:07PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> Anyway, my understanding was that cookies are meant mainly to stop annoying
> people from subscribing you to hundreds of mailing lists without your
> permission, as a joke.  Sure, very funny.

They work well for this -- somebody tried to subscribe me to a few dozen
mailing lists a couple of months back, and all but one tried to confirm.
Similar confirmation for unsubscription would be appropriate I think.


Hamish
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