From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 11 10:48:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA18932 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18923 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA15569; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:43:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708111743.KAA15569@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc aliases To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:43:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199708110140.SAA12999@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 10, 97 06:40:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I disagree with the "it gives more ways for spammers to send to known > > userids" argument if they're all aliased to "root" -- "root" is already > > a well known userid. > > But ``root'' is one almost every spammer in the world filters out as > they KNOW that root is the one who is going to come hunting them down > and/or filter them in major ways. Yeah, but a spammer who sens to "sales" is just asking to get spammed back... 8-). BTW: "sales" is one of those mailbox names that I would say should remain commented by default for strict conformance. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.