From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:28:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22249 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22178 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA26214; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:28:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "M. Maxwell" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19980804135729.A25046@drwho.xnet.com> 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 Tue, 4 Aug 1998, M. Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 10:38:44AM -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > > At 10:50 AM 8/4/98 -0500, M. Maxwell wrote: > > >Just curious, but is anyone else on this list besides myself taking some > > >kind of action against the spammers that are hitting it? So far, since > > >I've sub'ed this list, I've been getting a lot of spam, not all of it > > >from the list itself (such as this item). > > > > The list manager(s) is/are do actually work to keep spam out. > > It may not be the list's fault for you getting spam. Maybe it just took a > > while for your email address to get to one of the address lists in > > circulation. > > Well, I don't post to usenet with my email address intact, nor do I have it > on my web page... and I had almost zero spam before I subscribed to this > list, so if anything, one of the list's subscribers is probably an active > spammer that is using the list to harvest addresses. > > Nonetheless, I've had about 5 or 6 spammers from here eliminated (in addition > to the hundred or so others from over the last year or so from elsewhere). -questions gets hit because it's on all the FreeBSD web pages and the web harvesters find it. You should have seen www@freebsd.org before we changed the address over. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message