From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 6 13:37:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from a.servers.aozilla.com (unknown [216.22.145.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA793151FA for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 13:37:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by a.servers.aozilla.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21496 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:37:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. K." To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam [was: Earn Cash] In-Reply-To: <19990707021027.34687@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:11:25AM -0500, Mike Avery wrote: > > Let's hope we don't have to live with it! Are the FreeBSD lists > > filtered so only subscribers can post to them? That has all but > > eliminated spam in the mailing lists I run. > > No, every public FreeBSD list works the same: anyone can post. > That is not likely to be changed. This suggestion has been discussed > ad nauseum, and the benefits of having the lists open always outweigh > the risks involved. Other lists for other communities have different not the least of which is that I can post to the list from a different account than the one which receives the emails, thereby keeping all my "gee i harvested your email address from your post to the freebsd list" mail in one handy easy to delete mailbox, bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com. I have been on other lists though which enable this through a "send-only" subscription. I would think this would keep out just about any automated spamming system (without artificial intelligence capabilities :). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message