Re: Changing list to no-subscription-confirmation?
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Zembower, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] Your message was top-posted and failed to quote only the relevant portions of the message you were responding to. Please configure your MUA to quote correctly, and learn to trim quoted material properly, before sending messages to mailing lists. If you don't know what this means, read this: http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/T/top-post.html To learn what "quote correctly" and "trim quoted material" mean, read this: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html If you are using an MS MUA, these free add-on packages can apparently fix their quoting style for you: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ I've corrected your quoting for this reply. > > > I'm trying to change an existing list from requiring subscription > > > confirmation to not requiring subscription confirmations. I realize that > > > this is against the advice of most email list maintainers, but I have a > > > requirement to do this on this particular list. > > > Please explain how you have such a requirement. I'm unaware of any > > situation requiring such measures from a technical standpoint. > > I'm writing to ask for assistance with a documented aspect of the ezmlm > software. Respectfully, my reasons for asking about it should not affect the > contents of the answer. Actually, no, that's incorrect. You'll find the explanation for why in the list archives. > However, I'd still like to understand why I cannot make this change. Disabling ezmlm's subscription-confirmation feature opens your list up to subscription abuse; if you did this, anyone could subscribe my address (or this list address, or the address of any other of the list subscribers) to your list without my knowledge or permission. It's not in *anybody's* interest to help you disable a critical security feature in this way. Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ My services include ezmlm consulting. See http://pyropus.ca/ for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------