From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 01:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA13995 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA13982 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0xLksc-0032P6C; Thu, 16 Oct 97 09:02 MET Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:53:17 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:45:16 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists In-Reply-To: from Howard Lew at "Oct 15, 97 08:10:57 pm" To: digital@www2.shoppersnet.com (Howard Lew) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:45:16 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howard Lew wrote: > It appears to me that some users subscribed to the freebsd mailing lists > are pulling email addresses from message writers here and then using > those email addresses to send junk email. This is true and this is not the first time and it happenes more and more. I'd vote to disable majordomos feature to send out the complete list of memebers, its useless for the normal user anyway. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)