From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 26 07:05:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19629 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19621 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id CAA02371; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:04:28 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19981027020424.12210@welearn.com.au> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:04:24 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chickenbean.com References: <3.0.5.32.19981026155410.0095d7e0@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981026155410.0095d7e0@mail.scancall.no>; from Marius Bendiksen on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 03:54:10PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > You probably all noticed the chickenbean.com post. > > Since it was written with MS Outlook, crossposted to all the lists, rather > than being sent to Majordomo, and contained all(?) the lists, I would > suggest this person be added to the filter, as this is probably an attempt > at gathering e-mail adresses for later spamming. > > A suggestion (no, I did not include patches ;) would be to add some kind of > mechanism to Majordomo to force manual verification of people who do > suspicious subscriptions (such as the -newbies, -current, -hackers combo, > all subscribed in the course of very little time). The volume should be > pretty low, I would assume? Sheesh! How many of you have never ever made a mistake when trying something for the first time? Maybe the unwashed masses out there are not trying to get at you, but trying to be like you, poor misguided souls that they are. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message