From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 6:36:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C5537B400; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 06:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3CD43E9C; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 06:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8DDa7uF049138; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:36:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g8DDa60x049135; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:36:07 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:36:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Crispin Bennett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are messages to this list appearing in *.freebsd.questions ng's? In-Reply-To: <1031910439.510.5.camel@jupiter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 13 Sep 2002, Crispin Bennett wrote: [non-constructive threats trimmed; please don't post when you're upset] > .. 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. The archives of the mailing lists are available on the FreeBSD web page as well. Spammers trawling for addresses will obtain them there, too. 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." -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message