Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:18:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: John Johnstone <jjohnstone@tridentusa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Requiring list subscriptions (was Re: [Fwd: Gain Organic Traffic: Freebsdish.Org :PS]) Message-ID: <20140305111818.36882502@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <53168B33.9050602@tridentusa.com> References: <65506.128.135.70.2.1393967584.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <53168B33.9050602@tridentusa.com>
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Hi, On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:25:55 -0500 John Johnstone <jjohnstone@tridentusa.com> wrote: > Although I've only been subscribed to this list for about a year I > don't recall ever seeing spam that wouldn't have been stopped by > requiring subscription to post. Has there ever been any spam to this > list that used a forged subscriber address? there was/is an harvester subscribed. The spam is then send directly. Subscription still helps as just having the e-mail address in the database will not help and so the spammer's program will not use/succeed with this address. Erich
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