Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 4 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

On Saturday 05 January 2008 16:31:49 Daniel Brown wrote: > Had everything gone as it was supposed to, I think it would've > been welcomed with open arms. Unfortunately, my stupid ass flipped > the wrong flag while testing for approximately an hour, which sent > posts to the list every minute for one hour. However, they weren't > coming through at the time, and I didn't realize that they were even > being sent, because the address was not subscribed at the time. Once > the address was subscribed, all of the messages must've been held in a > queue on the mailing list side, and were then distributed. > > This leads me to ask, why? Isn't this a really Bad Idea[tm] to > hold posts in queue, pending confirmation of the sender's address? I > can understand one message, but any more than that shouldn't be > necessary. My intentions were just to add something "neat" to the > list for the regulars (which will work as expected now), but what if > someone had truly malicious intentions? What if hundreds or thousands > of emails were sent and held in queue, and then the sender's address > confirmed? Would the mailing list software even be able to handle > that much of a queue? > I wonder... what you try to do seems like a trivial task, or just task, where did you go wrong to make it send all those mails? just some personal interrest... > -- > Daniel P. Brown > [Phone Numbers Go Here!] > [They're Hidden From View!] > > If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you > can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you. -- --- Børge Holen http://www.arivene.net