Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:40:27 -1000 (HST) From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Cc: hm@kts.org, digital@www2.shoppersnet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <199710170240.QAA10375@caliban.dihelix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971016203931.7534A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Oct 16, 97 08:40:46 pm"
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>> Howard Lew wrote: >> >> > It appears to me that some users subscribed to the freebsd mailing lists >> > are pulling email addresses from message writers here and then using >> > those email addresses to send junk email. >> >> This is true and this is not the first time and it happenes more and more. >> >> I'd vote to disable majordomos feature to send out the complete list of >> memebers, its useless for the normal user anyway. >Would be a good idea, but they appear to be getting the addresses from the >people who send in questions/replys, instead of grabbing a list of >everyone on it. The only solution that is failsafe is, stop using the >lists. >And we all know how viable that is. Grin, bear it, and send fork() bombs. Um I take it you havent tried "which com" as a majordomo command recently :) -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com
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