Re: Delist this person: From: petsupermarket

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Patrick wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:06 +1030, Tim wrote:

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:57 +0100, Patrick wrote:

I propose World+Dog is unsubscribed from the list, the mailinglist
software is tweaked to address such problems and let everybody
subscribe again.

The trouble is that even if you did force everyone to resubscribe,
there's nothing stopping a spammer from doing so again.  Remember that
they're *receiving* messages from the list, but posting *directly* to
all the victims.  Any cretin can do that, and there's little a list
owner can do about that, unless they can figure out which subscriber is
the cretin, and that mayn't be possible.


Reading also James Wilkinson's comments ("the list administrators tried
putting per-subscriber data in the subject of a non-list e-mail sent to
all subscribers, and got nothing back...") I understand now that this is

Err, I saw a list *member* try to do that, but not the list admins.
If the list admins would do that, then they could find out who did it.

[snip]

Mike
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