Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:42:13 +0300 From: Ion Mihai Tetcu <freebsd@rol.ro> To: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Spam mail thru [].freebsd.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010801173738.039fe7d0@mail.rol.ro> In-Reply-To: <011201c11a96$91940ca0$13d030d5@mark2> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010801170501.00a17690@mail.rol.ro>
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At 15:27 01.08.2001 +0100, you wrote: > > I'm receving 3-4 of this email / day. >[.....] >The reasons for the mailing list being open to anyone to post to, is that >the address mailto:questions@freebsd.org is used as a general "help" email >address, as well as a mailing list, so people can email it even if they are >not subscribed to the list to ask for help. IMHO, not such a good ideea, but it OK. It's also vaable for newbies, isn't it ? >On a related topic, I've had a ten-fold increase in spam to my normal email >address (not through FreeBSD.org at all) since I've started posting to this >list, which I find far more annoying than the spam I get through the list >itself. At least I can unsubscribe from the list if the spam gets too much, >no such option with my own email address. I suppose I should have used a >separate email account to post here, but hey, what's done is done now I >guess. Yup, that why i'm not using my personal or jos adress. IOnut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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