From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 14:13:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1618914C19; Mon, 10 May 1999 14:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA49083; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Mark Murray , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM In-Reply-To: <199905102059.QAA15633@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 May 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message