Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:10:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: spam Message-ID: <20011222101010.B55159@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200112210540.fBL5e7584983@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3C22A278.32AE9EB@attbi.com> <200112210540.fBL5e7584983@apollo.backplane.com>
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[following up to -chat] On Thursday, 20 December 2001 at 21:40:07 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> I'm starting to get spam since I joined this list, and the spam is >> coming from freebsd.org. If I'm reading the headers right, it's coming >> in through a freebsd.org mail server. > > Ha. In the last two weeks the amount of personal spam I receive has > gone up exponentially. I'm getting around 60 a day now. I'm not > surprised that the list is seeing a big increase. Yes, I'm seeing this too. > I can only hope that our illustrious congress has grown as tired > of spam as I have and will fix the law to simply ban it. Interesting idea: since spam is not currently banned, set up a spam cannon to spam specifically members of congress. Use all the tricks of typical spammers. They'll get so sick of it that they'll quickly make it illegal. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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