Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:42:02 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM Message-ID: <19990510174202.29832@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101628360.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 04:29:54PM -0400 References: <036401be9b22$d35b4540$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101628360.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey scribbled this message on May 10: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. > > The could, but most wouldn't, wouldn't even know how. It wouldn't be > a sure cure, but it would sure help. Don't do it on newbies type lists, > like -questions or -newbies, even multimedia gets a lot of newbies. > Current and committers would be good candidates. there are a couple MAJOR problems with doing that to committers: a) I don't use my jmg@freebsd.org account to send mail, I'd have to do that, as just simply being a commiter gets your freebsd account subscribed to cvs-committers. I wondered why I was getting double commit messages when I became a committer, till I realized this and unsubscribed from cvs-all. b) If a normal user responds to mail to cvs-all, us committers wouldn't get the response as their reply would be dropped because they aren't on cvs-committers, but everyone else on cvs-* would get the reply. I have only recieved 61 spam messages so far since the begining of the year, this includes the dups to multiple mailing lists and myself. This is about one every other day, and considering most are dups, that isn't even two a week... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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