From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 4 11:26:58 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9079DA6C4 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:26:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christoph@christoph-egger.org) Received: from chadwick.siccegge.de (chadwick.siccegge.de [IPv6:2a00:f820:14::d2c5:2c12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 157927FA for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:26:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christoph@christoph-egger.org) Received: by chadwick.siccegge.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1abnsh-0005sj-5Q; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:26:52 +0000 From: Christoph Egger To: Carmel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Privat References: Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:26:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20160304_121040_509374_60AC2363) (Carmel's message of "Fri, 4 Mar 2016 06:09:59 -0500") Message-ID: <87egbqfpqc.fsf@mitoraj.siccegge.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/kfreebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:4dd0:ff00:d28::2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: christoph@christoph-egger.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on chadwick.siccegge.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=NO_RELAYS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: Span in the lists X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on chadwick.siccegge.de) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:26:58 -0000 Carmel writes: > This is all because some asshole feels it an inconvenience to have to > register for the list. I did an experiment a year or so ago to see > how long it takes to sign-up, receive the confirmation email and > activate the account. It took only three minutes, and I was drinking > coffee at the time so I was not rushing. Three minutes is too much time > for these lazy jerks to spend, so we all must suffer. Thankfully, most > email forums are populated by more highly motivated and security minded > individuals, so this sort of problem does not occur. For everyone just asking a quick question: + Finding the unregister link again + unregistering + deleting all the unwanted mail Also every time you use the wrong from: address: + notice you used the worng address + find the already sent mail address + find out which address actually is registered + modify from address + resend mail Christoph --