Message-Id: <199705280011.TAA26629@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:09:07 -0500 From: Jeff Huestis <mailto:Jeff-Huestis@library.wustl.edu> Subject: "Spam" To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
Sorry about that junk mail message that just came through. Posting to this list is supposed to be limited to subscribers, but I've had a rash of bogus subscriptions springing up as fast as I can delete them, over the past weekend. Apparently, there is a new phenomenon of bulk e-mail services going out and rounding up lists of listservs and subscribing to them in order to get their messages through. Undoubtedly, these people have protected themselves against mail bombs and letters to the apparent sender's postmaster. So it remains to be seen how we can make this type of abuse expensive.Jeff Huestis Listowner