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From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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