Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Derdau <sderdau@bit-net.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Tom Nadeau <tnadeau@lucidvision.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam on freebsd list Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980929155608.28846A-100000@mail.bit-net.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809290950140.432-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Even though there is a small amount of spam I would rather quickly delete that than to not be part of this list. This list is the best !!!!! FreeBSD When It Matters Thank You /sd On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Tom Nadeau wrote: > > > Anyone out there know why spam is being sent around > >on the FreeBSD mailing list? I count at least 3 since I > >signed up on the list yesterday. If this continues, I > >will get off the list and just search the digests. > > I'll tell you why spam is being sent. > > Spam is being sent because the Department of Natural Resources refuses to > issue hunting licenses for them because the DNR operates under the > mistaken notion that spammers are a protected species. > > The mail guru works hard to ban spammers as they show up. This is like > trying to rid your space ship of tribbles. The FreeBSD lists are every bit > as subject to the net as any one persons mailbox. > > Out of the 150 or so FreeBSD emails I get each day, one or two of them are > spam (less than one percent). I can always recognize them by the header. I > just delete them. > > If this is too much for you to bare, perhaps your stated plan of action is > best. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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