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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists
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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.