Re: Changing list to no-subscription-confirmation?

David Robertson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ezmlm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

It's in his own interest.  He's aware of the side effects, as he stated. 
  Instead of wasting 15 minutes typing up that reply, you could have 
answered his question.
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