On Aug 26, 2005, at 05:42, Jari Arkko wrote:
I realize that this is something that could happen. Interesting attack! But I missed the part where its somehow news to us that e-mail system can be tricked in various ways.
It's not. But that doesn't mean we need to add new ways, and enable them by default.
And: Most of the time in important discussions it does not matter if some messages get lost.
No, most of the time it doesn't. But occasionally it does.
(Personally, I like to receive duplicates because then I know the emails have gone to the list.)
So do I. My thanks to Keith for pointing this out... it wouldn't have occurred to me that the defaults would be "wrong" for otherwise reasonable mailing list software. :-) Guess I should check some of my subscriptions... now, if I could just remember all the lists on all the servers I've subscribed to....
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