Date: 13 Sep 2002 21:25:34 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are messages to this list appearing in *.freebsd.questions ng's? Message-ID: <87n0qli9y9.fsf@pooh.int> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209130705120.49045-100000@wonkity.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209130705120.49045-100000@wonkity.com>
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At 2002-09-13T13:36:06Z, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: > 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. Warren, I've also seen plenty of mailing lists that where the archives are available through a web interface (i.e., the Debian user list), and that's not always advertised in advance. I only mention this to amplify your message that you *have* to consider these lists as being completely public forums. Crispin, As a side note, there's nothing at all to prevent spammers from subscribing to mailing lists to harvest addresses. I mean, Cisco might have in interest in people who are heavily into networking, and may lurk in the freebsd-net list to see who posts. I doubt that they do, but they certainly could. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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