From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 19:41:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA12216 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.dihelix.com [198.180.136.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA12204 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from langfod@caliban.dihelix.com) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.7/8.8.3) id QAA10375; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:40:27 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199710170240.QAA10375@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Oct 16, 97 08:40:46 pm" To: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:40:27 -1000 (HST) Cc: hm@kts.org, digital@www2.shoppersnet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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