Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:41:18 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: spam from BSDSearch.com (was Re: Daemon News Ezine, March 2001 (not spam!)) Message-ID: <200103011941.f21JfK605410@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp3dcx5tgm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:44:48 -0700"
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On 1 Mar 2001, at 17:45, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> writes: > > > > P.S.: We'll never spam you. > > > Funny. BSDSearch claims to be sponsored by Daemon News. > > Ugh. No, they're not. Why would DN sponsor something to compete with > > search.daemonnews.org? > > Well, then, that's a cease-and-desist just waiting to happen, isn't > it? Check it out yourself - http://www.bsdsearch.com/ lists Daemon > News at the top of the "Sponsors" section of their front page. > > The ironic part is that the "Which BSD site is sending out spam?" > Daily Daemon News article is listed on BSDSearch's "Latest Headlines" > section :) For those wondering what the spammer is claiming, try these threads from the BSDSearch forums: http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=24&t=16 http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=26&t=16 Basically, they are admitting that a friend made a list of BSD emails. It appears they thought spamming people was OK, but didn't know their list contained mailing list addresses. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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