From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 12:59:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.bit-net.com (mail.bit-net.com [208.146.132.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26652 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sderdau@bit-net.com) Received: from mail.bit-net.com (mail.bit-net.com [208.146.132.6]) by mail.bit-net.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA19668; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Derdau To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Tom Nadeau , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam on freebsd list In-Reply-To: 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 Even though there is a small amount of spam I would rather quickly delete that than to not be part of this list. This list is the best !!!!! FreeBSD When It Matters Thank You /sd On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message