From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 21:05:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA17071 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA17051 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:05:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from digital@www2.shoppersnet.com) Received: (from digital@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22565; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:03:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: Hellmuth Michaelis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > > 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 Yes, I think you are right. I have checked and they do seem to come from posts/replies -- not from being on the list. I guess there is no easy solution except for adding a nospam email address which is a big pain for anyone who wants to reply. > 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. > > > > > > hellmuth > > -- > > Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe > > "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. > > And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw) > > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | > * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * > | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| > * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * > | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* >