From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 8:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F6937B419 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:46:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Carl Tucker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spamming FreeBSD lists. Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:46:13 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <87ofk6dnjh.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020108063723.GA24052@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020108063723.GA24052@panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0cb6f2046150812FE8@mail8.nc.rr.com> 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 On Tuesday 08 January 2002 01:37 am, Carl Tucker wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:27:30AM -0800, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > > reply to this message. Note that if your message is an unsolicited > > advertisement, freebsd.org will bill you or your company $100 per > > subscriber, payable net-30. Currently, there are 1500 [or whatever] > > subscribers." > > > > Good idea? Bad idea? > > Bad idea, I think. That message condones spamming the list. It says > you can spam, and it costs $100. Actually, per the last two sentences, it costs $150,000.00. Considering all the good that $150,000 would do for the FreeBSD project, I'd be willing to be on the receiving end of a single spam message if the sender contributed that much to the project. But of course in practice it would merely serve as a deterrent to send the spam in the first place, and that would be ok, too. > The optional last sentence shows what > you get for your money. > > I don't want to be an a list that sells advertising. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message