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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SPAM 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101708530.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199905102059.QAA15633@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Mon, 10 May 1999 22:28:10 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said:
> 
> > Yes, but is stops the scrape 'n spammers who get the easy-to-reach
> > addresses off the web page.
> 
> It also stops perfectly legitimate users who are subscribed to a local
> mailing-list exploder, read the lists through Usenet, or for other
> reasons are subscribed with a different address from the one or ones
> they use to post.

Garrett's points are why I sugggested that it would not be a useable
approach for -questions, newbies, and mabye hackers, 'cause they all get
a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes.  Current and
committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn't hold
for those lists, which do get spammed.

> 
> -GAWollman
> 
> 
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