From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 6:12:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E450C37B407 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18682; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:12:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:12:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Mills Subject: Re: URGENT In-Reply-To: <20020621082346465.AAA685@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > The spam on this list is pretty phenomenal. Was it always this > > bad? > > > I don't think so. Then again, spam has gotten a lot worse everywhere > over the last year or so. > > Then again, if questions@freebsd.org was like 95% of the email lists > out there and didn't allow anyone in the whole wide world to post > without being a listmember, I *guarantee* it would not be as bad as > it is now. > I think this was talked about in the past and the reasoning had something to do with a problem of legit users not gettin it on their from addresses in that arrangement (in other words signing up one way, but emailing from another)... Personally, I think if you cant figure out that piece, you should be a windows user.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message