From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 14 11:01:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18484 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18464 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21129; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:59:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:59:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: Don Lewis , jbryant@unix.tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forward all spam to UCE@FTC.GOV In-Reply-To: <199901141436.XAA10694@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > This sort of forwarding facility should be an option; do not make it > default! FreeBSD is used not only in US, but also all over the world, > you know. I don't think FTC would in any way like to deal with spams > outside of US. Besides which, if every freebsd machine had it turned on by default, the FTC would receive tens of thousands of copies of each spam (and all via automated delivery) so we would be in effect spamming them. Let's not discourage them from having such an address because it gets mailbombed by freebsd hosts :). Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message