From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 23:53:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B88BCA6 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA70ADDD for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLKcl-0005Ub-0x for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:53:47 +0100 Received: from vps.jonz.net ([216.17.42.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:53:47 +0100 Received: from SPAM_TRAP_gmane by vps.jonz.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:53:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonesy Subject: Re: Spam Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20150210155254.736611dc@topdeck.tinsleyviaduct.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vps.jonz.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:53:52 -0000 On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:33:10 +0000 (UTC), Will Parsons wrote: > Phil Reynolds wrote: >> Malcolm Matalka wrote: >> >>> This mailing list produces almost all of the spam I receive. Is there >>> any plan to reduce the spam? >> >> The list is open for posting to by non-members. There are reasons for >> this, but this also means it is open to spam. Annoying, but nothing >> that can really be done about it. > > One possibility is to use Gmane and a newsreader to access the mailing > list. That's what I do, and I have no problem at all with spam. +1 I use `slrn` and pull from gmane.os.freebsd.questions As well from a few other Gmane groups. Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | FreeBSD 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | linux OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm