Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 17:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: hm@kts.org Cc: digital@www2.shoppersnet.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <199710190059.RAA12857@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <m0xLjgK-00023aC@bert.kts.org> from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at Oct 16, 97 08:45:16 am
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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. it is disabled. has been disabled for weeks, if not months now. we seem to be seeing a new tactic, evil spammer subscribes and harvests addresses from the list traffic. jmb ps. sorry for the late reply, i have been off the net since wednesday night.
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