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From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Electronic Harassment
Message-ID: <1697@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 18:59:10 GMT
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Michael Linksvayer writes:
> Would not this problem be virtually eliminated if the maintainers of 
> mailing lists would only subscribe an account if the request for 
> subscription came from that account?

Naive systems would be fooled by forged email, however.  If the mail is
coming from the same site/machine on a Unix system, the userid can be
forged rather trivially.  Callback (i.e. sending a verification message
and query) would reduce the problem however.

Jim