From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 1 11:41:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B7037B780; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f21JfK605410; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:41:20 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103011941.f21JfK605410@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:41:18 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: spam from BSDSearch.com (was Re: Daemon News Ezine, March 2001 (not spam!)) Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:44:48 -0700" In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Mar 2001, at 17:45, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Gregory Sutter writes: > > > > P.S.: We'll never spam you. > > > Funny. BSDSearch claims to be sponsored by Daemon News. > > Ugh. No, they're not. Why would DN sponsor something to compete with > > search.daemonnews.org? > > Well, then, that's a cease-and-desist just waiting to happen, isn't > it? Check it out yourself - http://www.bsdsearch.com/ lists Daemon > News at the top of the "Sponsors" section of their front page. > > The ironic part is that the "Which BSD site is sending out spam?" > Daily Daemon News article is listed on BSDSearch's "Latest Headlines" > section :) For those wondering what the spammer is claiming, try these threads from the BSDSearch forums: http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=24&t=16 http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=26&t=16 Basically, they are admitting that a friend made a list of BSD emails. It appears they thought spamming people was OK, but didn't know their list contained mailing list addresses. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message