From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 18:11:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA0016A417 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail46.e.nsc.no (mail46.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E791F13C459 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.185.216] (062016185216.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.185.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail46.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l7NIBuOS022608 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:11:56 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <46CDCDAD.2000403@netscape.net> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:10:53 +0200 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:58 -0000 Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email > addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to > impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make > the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful. Maybe so. But we could be allowed to register two addresses - one that we use for sending and another one for reception of list mail. And if someone prefers to use a bogus sending address, that should not matter as long as the other address is real. I should like to see a system of this sort (or similar) on all the FreeBSD mailing lists. -- Tore