From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 15:36:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (perrya@python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20544 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:36:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perrya@python.shoal.net.au) Received: from localhost (perrya@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA26109 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 09:36:17 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 09:36:15 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spam on the lists In-Reply-To: <19980314161946.21351@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 02:10:43PM -0800, Sean Harding wrote: > > Someone needs to put some spam filters on the FreeBSD mailing lists; the > > addresses have apparently made it onto some bulk e-mail lists. I get > > enough spam on my own without the FreeBSD lists helping me :-) > > Luckily, most of this spam gets treated like spam by my spam filters. :) > Luckily most of the spam is filtered out by FreeBSD's spam filters as well. It seems to me that it would be difficult to stop someone sending mail to the lists without also making it harder for the list to serve its purpose. jmb has (in my opion) done a pretty good job. Andrew Perry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message