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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


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