Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:55:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@kts.org>, Howard Lew <digital@www2.shoppersnet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <19971017115554.47636@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971016203931.7534A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 08:40:46PM -0500 References: <m0xLjgK-00023aC@bert.kts.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971016203931.7534A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 08:40:46PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > >> 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. > Would be a good idea, but they appear to be getting the addresses from the > people who send in questions/replys, instead of grabbing a list of > everyone on it. The only solution that is failsafe is, stop using the > lists. > And we all know how viable that is. Grin, bear it, and send fork() bombs. Grin. Bear it. Don't send bombs. Is this person still on the distribution list? Maybe we should form an acceptable use policy. Greg
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