From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 09:57:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24139 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA51794; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:57:13 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id JAA18392; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:57:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Tom Nadeau cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam on freebsd list In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980929105258.009e5b10@mailbox.casc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Tom Nadeau wrote: > Anyone out there know why spam is being sent around >on the FreeBSD mailing list? I count at least 3 since I >signed up on the list yesterday. If this continues, I >will get off the list and just search the digests. I'll tell you why spam is being sent. Spam is being sent because the Department of Natural Resources refuses to issue hunting licenses for them because the DNR operates under the mistaken notion that spammers are a protected species. The mail guru works hard to ban spammers as they show up. This is like trying to rid your space ship of tribbles. The FreeBSD lists are every bit as subject to the net as any one persons mailbox. Out of the 150 or so FreeBSD emails I get each day, one or two of them are spam (less than one percent). I can always recognize them by the header. I just delete them. If this is too much for you to bare, perhaps your stated plan of action is best. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message