From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 2 15:11:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BF837B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88CCF43FBD for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tyler@cg1.org) Received: from user200.net422.nc.sprint-hsd.net ([65.40.107.200] helo=eaves) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18pccd-0006qL-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 15:11:56 -0800 Message-ID: <001b01c2e111$1f783360$6401a8c0@eaves> From: "Tyler Eaves" To: References: <3E627E34.9030302@ivestnw.net> <00e801c2e10d$ff6af7e0$0100a8c0@DaleCoportable> Subject: Re: SPAM! Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:11:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Most of what I'm getting is of russian origin. Wouldn't a simple solution be to limit posting rights to subscribers? Almost every mailing list I subscribe to (quite a few, 15+) does this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Pat Lathem" ; "Don Tyson" Cc: "Tyler Eaves" ; ; Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:49 PM Subject: Re: SPAM! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Lathem" > To: "Don Tyson" > Cc: "Tyler Eaves" ; ; > > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:57 PM > Subject: Re: SPAM! > > > > Tyler Eaves wrote: > > > > > > Can something PLEASE be done about this? > > > > > Don Tyson wrote: > > > >Tyler -- > > > > > >Assuming you are complaining about messages from > > >freebsd-newbies, this is a mailing list to which you -- > > >or someone else using your name -- subscribed. > > > > > >But if that was a mistake, or a prank, the solution is > > >as close as the bottom of this message, as well as the one you > > >complained about and your complaint message as well. Just > > >unsubscribe. > > > > > >Don > > > > > Pat Lathem wrote: > > > > I think this person was referring to the unsolicited email coming > to > > freebsd-newbies. I am under the impression from another email > posted > > that the postmaster does quite a lot to help prevent spam. > > > > Pat Lathem > > > > > If you've ever read newsgroups, you'd realize that what > comes through here is trivial by comparison. As someone > has said, these lists (@freebsd.org, in general) are a rather > huge (and non-moving) target. > > That said, in all fairness, I probably don't see everything > Tyler does. If a piece of mail says "Viagra", "Africa+dollars", > "a**f***ers", "saw it on Oprah", "Peter Paul Rubens", > etc., etc., ad infinitum et ad nauseum, my mailer has a > nice trashcan for that, and a ruleset, so it never comes > around to offend me.... > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message