[Gllug] Spanish Yahoo! groups

[Dylan]

On Friday 22 August 2003 19:41, will wrote:
> David Damerell wrote:
> > On Friday, 22 Aug 2003, will wrote:
> >>I! suspect that it is someone trying to prove a point (re: subscriber
> >> only posts), given the timing, by subscribing the list to spanish yahoo
> >> groups.
> >
> > I wonder if a Spanish speaker on the list could ask Yahoo to provide
> > the headers of the subscription request and/or confirmation email.
> >
> > [If Yahoo groups subscriptions don't need confirmation emails they're
> > largely responsible - all mailing lists should in this day and age.]
>
> They may well require confirmation, but then I can see that a
> challenge-response list membership confirmation system would still allow a
> user to subscribe the gllug list to the yahoo group as the challenge would
> be delivered to everyone. Most effective if over 99% of the group cannot
> read the emails to see what is happening.  The subscription confirmations
> may have been right under our noses.

I think the confirmations have been sent and responded to...

>
> I suspect that getting the headers out of yahoo would be about as easy as
> $HERCULEAN_TASK.

Yes, Cysyphus might have more luck

Dylan

>
> Will.

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