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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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On 2006.05.27 13:12:37 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>=20
> SLN> > GS>   - Change admins@ to accounts@, since the former is closed du=
e 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> >=20
> SLN> > What wonders me a bit is that I did not find any announcement for =
this even on=20
> SLN> > closed mailing list.
> SLN>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Ah, thanks for clarification. So, I suppose glebius@ apparently had to co=
ntact=20
> admins, got this reply and decided to document it somewhere ;-)

Yes.

> However, doesn't this auto-reply provoke spammers to think admins@ is sti=
ll=20
> workable mail address?=20

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 :-).

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Simon L. Nielsen

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