Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:25:20 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/internal new-account.sgml Message-ID: <20060527092519.GD1065@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060527131045.T82623@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <200605261021.k4QALmRa046669@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060527125944.G82623@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060527090914.GB1065@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20060527131045.T82623@woozle.rinet.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2006.05.27 13:12:37 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Sat, 27 May 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > SLN> > GS> - Change admins@ to accounts@, since the former is closed due to > SLN> > GS> a lot of spam. > SLN> > GS> - Do not use full form of accounts@ email address, to avoid spam > SLN> > GS> harvesting of this address. > SLN> > > SLN> > What wonders me a bit is that I did not find any announcement for this even on > SLN> > closed mailing list. > SLN> > SLN> It changed half a year or so ago after admins started getting 1000+ > SLN> bounces a day. People writing admins will get a reply telling them > SLN> where to direct their email. > > Ah, thanks for clarification. So, I suppose glebius@ apparently had to contact > admins, got this reply and decided to document it somewhere ;-) Yes. > However, doesn't this auto-reply provoke spammers to think admins@ is still > workable mail address? Could be, but that doesn't really matter. Computer resources (for receiving the spam mails) is not a problem in this case, admin resources is :-). -- Simon L. Nielsen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEeBr/h9pcDSc1mlERAvVQAJ9x2sHX5jQmNQl8MfFBYAJdxDTelQCgja7t Qio0Nt84/PXpq+zPnDV+/Ag= =nkFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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