From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 1:52:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ED3D37B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10724 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Nov 2000 19:50:57 +1000 X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 2.06 15-Sep-2000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:50:56 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time to close the list? References: <20001102104527.A37821@lucifer.bart.nl> In-reply-to: <20001102104527.A37821@lucifer.bart.nl> of Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:45:27 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: > -On [20001102 09:45], Greg Black (gjb@gbch.net) wrote: > >Maybe it's time to close the list so that it only accepts > >messages from subscribers. The spam was bad enough, but the > >virus warnings are over the top. Sigh. > > I personally prefer mailing the backarsed company producing this piece > of junk. If you can get through to them, go right ahead. > I mean Precedence: bulk is a frigging standard. You know that and I know that and probably all the legitimate subscribers to the list know that -- but we're dealing with cretins here, and so we need to take effective steps against them. I don't want to unsubscribe, but I don't want all the junk either. -- Greg Black Join the fight against spam: http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message