From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 17:45:14 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 AD41837B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A85643E3B for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crispin@crisweb.webcentral.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.139] (c16424.rochd2.qld.optusnet.com.au [210.49.67.43]) by mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8E0j4u14548; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:45:04 +1000 Subject: Re: Why are messages to this list appearing in *.freebsd.questions ng's? From: Crispin Bennett To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 14 Sep 2002 10:44:56 +1000 Message-Id: <1031964297.262.32.camel@jupiter> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 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