From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 10 19:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF4715DB6 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: by eagle.phc.igs.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 9B1401886; Mon, 10 May 1999 21:11:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eagle.phc.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 95CA513; Mon, 10 May 1999 21:11:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:11:47 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle To: Chuck Robey Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM In-Reply-To: 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, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. > > The could, but most wouldn't, wouldn't even know how. It wouldn't be > a sure cure, but it would sure help. Don't do it on newbies type lists, > like -questions or -newbies, even multimedia gets a lot of newbies. > Current and committers would be good candidates. So you got some spam from the mailing list, so you generate a few hundred more emails about the spam, i'm being spammed by anti spam email :) Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message