Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101708530.401-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199905102059.QAA15633@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 10 May 1999 22:28:10 +0200, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> said: > > > Yes, but is stops the scrape 'n spammers who get the easy-to-reach > > addresses off the web page. > > It also stops perfectly legitimate users who are subscribed to a local > mailing-list exploder, read the lists through Usenet, or for other > reasons are subscribed with a different address from the one or ones > they use to post. Garrett's points are why I sugggested that it would not be a useable approach for -questions, newbies, and mabye hackers, 'cause they all get a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes. Current and committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn't hold for those lists, which do get spammed. > > -GAWollman > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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