From owner-freebsd-small Fri Aug 27 15:50: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from 1stpc.org (a147.ccgnv.net [207.141.129.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A96514BFC for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjl@peak.org) Received: from peak.org [207.141.129.121] by 1stpc.org with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.04) id A7ACDBFC014A; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:56:44 EST Received: by peak.org (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA26748 for freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199908272249.SAA26748@ocalhost> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach_patches v148.2) X-Image-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/luomat@peak.org.tiff In-Reply-To: <199908272243.QAA76545@harmony.village.org> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.2) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:49:17 -0400 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free spam References: <199908272224.SAA26005@ocalhost> <199908272243.QAA76545@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Replying to message of Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:43:03 -0600 from Warner Losh regarding ``Re: free spam '' > : I've never heard of a spammer actually going through the > : subscribe+confirm process to send spam > > I have. Well, let me rephrase that... "Although there may be a very small occurrence when spammers actually do subscribe, there is a much much higher percentage of spam that could be stopped by requiring list membership for posting. I haven't heard of any, but I'm sure there are cases where spammers do sign up. I have seen hundreds of spam messages that could have been prevented with proper controls. TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message