From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 16:48:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29672 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:48:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29642; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA03054; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:18:26 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA13312; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:18:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980911091817.T583@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:18:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Wolfram Schneider Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blocking BCC spam References: <19980910144148.A12693@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19980910155220.22579@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980910155220.22579@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:52:20PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 10 September 1998 at 15:52:20 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 02:41:48PM +0200, Wolfram Schneider woke me up to tell me: >> Can we block blind carbon copy mails (bcc) to the FreeBSD mailing >> lists? This would reduce the spams a little bit. I don't think it is >> to harsh to require a 'to: freebsd-foo' or 'cc: freebsd-bla' line for >> our users. > > I dunno... > When moving a thread from one list to another, I often bcc the original > list to let them know it was moved, but make it take work to keep the > thread on that list. Agreed. I do this too, and I find it a useful feature. I wouldn't like to see it go away. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message