Re: Insulin pumpers headers

"Patty" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 2 May 2006 05:38:32 +0000 (UTC), Blammo wrote:
>
>> On 01 May 2006, - Blammo entered spamcop and left
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> Or: confirmation is turned off, subscriptions are manually added by the
>>> admin.
>>>
>>
>> Further reading leads me to believe that they are using the "approve"
>> option...
>>
>> Approval ========
>> When Majordomo requests your approval for something, it sends you a 
>> message
>> that includes a template of the approval message; if you concur, you 
>> simply
>> need to replace "PASSWORD" in the template with your list password, and
>> send the template line back to Majordomo.
>> ...
>> You can approve any "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" request, regardless of
>> whether Majordomo has requested this approval, with an "approve" command.
>> Thus, you can subscribe or unsubscribe people from your list without them
>> having to send anything to Majordomo; just send an appropriate "approve
>> PASSWORD subscribe LIST ADDRESS" or "approve PASSWORD unsubscribe LIST
>> ADDRESS" command off to Majordomo.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> In addition, the following is from the majordomo config file...
>>
>> 'subscribe_policy',
>> "One of three values: open, closed, auto; plus an optional
>> modifier: '+confirm'.  Open allows people to subscribe themselves to
>> the list. Auto allows anybody to subscribe anybody to the list without
>> maintainer approval. Closed requires maintainer approval for all
>> subscribe requests to the list.  Adding '+confirm', ie,
>> 'open+confirm', will cause majordomo to send a reply back to the
>> subscriber which includes a authentication number which must be sent
>> back in with another subscribe command.",
>>
>
> I believe we must be set to closed in some manner.  The list maintainer
> must subscribe NEW people.  You cannot subscribe yourself to the list
> without first supplying a profile and request to the Administration.  So,
> would not 'open+confirm' negate that setup by allowing someone to 
> subscribe
> themself?
>
> Just trying to understand this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Patty

What is the reason for an 'administrator' (manually) looking at the 
subscriber 'profiles'?

That does not prevent someone from 'subscribing' someone else without their 
knowledge - 'profiles' are easily forges (most of the time that a site 
requires 'registration' in order to view it, I personally do not give any 
useful information as it is none of their business.)

Therefore, how does the administrator determine who to deny registration to?

And, ultimately, why do you even WANT to refuse a subscription, if someone 
is interested in IPs why do you or the subscriber have to go through all the 
hoops?

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