From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 9:10:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B11B37B405 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:09:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2590 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2002 17:09:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO z5w4q9) ([216.27.132.29]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Jan 2002 17:09:58 -0000 Message-ID: <008f01c19866$fb7c5480$1d841bd8@kibserv.org> From: "USER" To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , "Carl Tucker" , References: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020108063723.GA24052@panix.com> <0cb6f2046150812FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:07:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just a thought: Is it possible to setup the mailing list to only accept emails that are from addresses that match those that subscribe? I am asking this partially for my own future use. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" To: "Carl Tucker" ; Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 01:37 am, Carl Tucker wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:27:30AM -0800, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > > reply to this message. Note that if your message is an unsolicited > > > advertisement, freebsd.org will bill you or your company $100 per > > > subscriber, payable net-30. Currently, there are 1500 [or whatever] > > > subscribers." > > > > > > Good idea? Bad idea? > > > > Bad idea, I think. That message condones spamming the list. It says > > you can spam, and it costs $100. > > Actually, per the last two sentences, it costs $150,000.00. Considering all > the good that $150,000 would do for the FreeBSD project, I'd be willing to be > on the receiving end of a single spam message if the sender contributed that > much to the project. > > But of course in practice it would merely serve as a deterrent to send the > spam in the first place, and that would be ok, too. > > > The optional last sentence shows what > > you get for your money. > > > > I don't want to be an a list that sells advertising. > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > http://www.babbleon.org > > -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- > > http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message