dalnet_friends ?

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 21:32:42 -0400 (AST)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Christopher Majka <nextug@is.dal.ca>
cc: Justin Little <am904@chebucto.ns.ca>, ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca
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Hi Justin...

The proper way to subscribe to a majordomo mailing list is via 
'authenticated' email... submitting an http form from a browser is no 
guarantee that the 'subscribee' is who they say they are... With a form, 
I could subscribe _you_ to a list (mlm, porn, ....) with mail... if the 
request is to subscribe someone at a different address... such as 

dpotter@chebucto.ns.ca requests you subscribe ab934@chebucto.ns.ca

...majordomo asks the listowner to approve the request, normally as a list 
owner I would check with ab934 to make sure he or she wanted to join the 
list...
 
As a listowner there's some comfort in knowing that the people subscribed, 
understand how to (use email to) 'unsubscribe' etc....

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In the past, we have used a script to subscribe people who are logged-in 
to CCN to a CCN list (guest logins excluded) ...basically the login 
process provides the authentication.

david potter


On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Christopher Majka wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Justin Little wrote:
> 
> > everything sounds great to me, 
> > the name dalnet_chat will work fine :)
> > thanks.....
> > 
> > justin...
> > 
> > ps.. this maybe should go to userhelp :P but i was just wandering if there
> > was some sort of cgi script that will allow ppl to register right away by
> > clicking on it.. ive already made a registration page for the list
> > (http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~am904) but was wandering if i could add that
> > in... 
> 
> Registration page looks great! I don't think there is any way you could
> further automate the procedure of list subscription, especially since you
> are collecting all sorts of information beyond what majordomo requires.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Christopher Majka                               <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
> URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html
> 
> "We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot 
> even be heard to rattle their chains."              -- Carl E. Lindstrom
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