Subject: RE: List access
From: David Smith (david.smith@synopsys.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 09:52:22 PDT
I am sorry that my wording was not clear.
For the "which" and "who" list commands to return information about the members within the mailing lists they must have settings that define who is allowed to receive the information.
By default the "which" command would not provide information on any addresses that were requested. The command uses the form "which address" where address is the one being looked for. It returns all lists for the mail list manager that has the named address. If the permission is set to "closed" (the default) for a particular list then it will never show up in the response. If the permission is set to "list" then it will show up if the person that sent the "which" command is a member of the list. If it is set to "open" then it will show up for any person that sent the "which" command. This allows spammers to make interesting requests.
Something similar is true for the "who" command.
I have set the permissions on "who" and "which" to be "list".
I hope this clarifies things.
David W. Smith
Synopsys Scientist
Synopsys, Inc.
9205 SW Gemini Drive
Beaverton, OR 97008
Voice: 503.520.2715
FAX: 503.643.3361
Email: david.smith@synopsys.com
http://www.synopsys.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com [mailto:Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:25 PM
To: David Smith
Cc: sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: RE: List access
What is meant by "access" ?
Shalom
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, David Smith wrote:
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:17:42 -0700
> From: David Smith <david.smith@synopsys.com>
> To: David Smith <david.smith@synopsys.com>, sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: List access
>
> I have had a suggestion from Paul Menchini that we do not open the
> access to the list to the world but restrict it to just list members.
> This is to reduce the amount of SPAM to the mail lists. I will change
> the list access to be only for list members.
>
> Regards
> David
>
> David W. Smith
> Synopsys Scientist
> Synopsys, Inc.
> 9205 SW Gemini Drive
> Beaverton, OR 97008
>
> Voice: 503.520.2715
> FAX: 503.643.3361
> Email: david.smith@synopsys.com <mailto:david.smith@synopsys.com>
> <http://www.synopsys.com/> http://www.synopsys.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Smith [mailto:david.smith@synopsys.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:16 PM
> To: sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: List access
>
>
> I have just opened up access to the "who" and "which" command so that
> anyone can find out what list a person is on and who is on the sv-ec
> list. If there are any concerns about this let me know. The more
> restrictive action would be to limit it to only people that are
> actually on the list. The previous state was that noone could access
> it.
>
> Regards
> David
> David W. Smith
> Synopsys Scientist
>
> Synopsys, Inc.
> 9205 SW Gemini Drive
> Beaverton, OR 97008
>
> Voice: 503.520.2715
> FAX: 503.643.3361
> Email: david.smith@synopsys.com <mailto:david.smith@synopsys.com>
> <http://www.synopsys.com/> http://www.synopsys.com
>
>
>
>
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