Date: 14 Sep 2002 10:44:56 +1000 From: Crispin Bennett <crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are messages to this list appearing in *.freebsd.questions ng's? Message-ID: <1031964297.262.32.camel@jupiter> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209130705120.49045-100000@wonkity.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209130705120.49045-100000@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 23:36, Warren Block wrote: > On 13 Sep 2002, Crispin Bennett wrote: > > [non-constructive threats trimmed; please don't post when you're upset] > Well it wasn't really a threat. Just suggesting testicular maceration would be a desirable outcome for any male person who gave my email address to thieves. As you'll see from the ".au" in my address, I live in Australia, and travelling overseas to deliver retribution is an expensive business. > > .. and is there a warning when signing up that this will be the case? If > > not, why not? > > Anyone can receive a mailing list and do pretty much whatever they want > with it. In this case, it looks like universities in Norway and Taiwan > are redirecting it to newsgroups. So you don't get a warning because > it's not FreeBSD.org that's doing it. > OK, fair point. I have to say with the many lists I use (and post to), I haven't had this happen before. If it is, as you say, a third party who's collaborated with thieves, then my apologies to anyone I've offended here. I'll follow the issue up with the aforesaid Norweigan/Taiwanese arseholes. > The archives of the mailing lists are available on the FreeBSD web page > as well. Spammers trawling for addresses will obtain them there, too. > But it doesn't happen (or not much). With ng's, however, it happens all the time, for which reason I'd never use a real email address there (and wouldn't have here, if I had known what the outcome would be). > A general-purpose warning could be a good addition to the mailing lists > page: > > "Posts to these lists will be visible on this web site, and may > be mirrored to newsgroups or otherwise posted elsewhere by > groups outside our control. Spammers and other scum may collect > email addresses or other information from any of these sources. > > If you are concerned about such abuse of your email address, > consider using a throwaway email address from one of the many > free email providers." > > This sounds like a good suggestion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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