From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 19:25:39 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 C0CAF37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D70243E6E for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8E2PYEe000471 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:25:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17q2co-0000tI-00 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:25:34 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are messages to this list appearing in *.freebsd.questions ng's? References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: 13 Sep 2002 21:25:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87n0qli9y9.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 At 2002-09-13T13:36:06Z, Warren Block 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