From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 21:49:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19219 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:49:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA19175 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from compton by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (5.65/AndrewR-930902) id AA29173; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:16:55 +0930 From: Kristian Kennaway Received: by compton; (5.65/1.1.8.2/22May95-0130PM) id AA20901; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:16:52 +0930 Message-Id: <9710170446.AA20901@compton> Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists To: digital@www2.shoppersnet.com (Howard Lew) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:16:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, hm@kts.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Oct 16, 97 09:03:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] 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 > 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. > I'd just like to note that today I received my first ever spam-mail, after posting to this list for the first time a few days ago. Until now I've been successfully "hiding" by not having my email address make it out onto UseNet or anywhere else grepped by spammers. Oh well - all good things much come to an end, as they say :-) Kris