Subject: Re: perhaps that's where the spammers got the NetBSD list
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: [This is my bacque pas, this is my faux pas] <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/03/1997 22:37:40
"John F. Woods" sez:
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* If I recall correctly, some time ago someone complained about receiving
* spam at an address used only for sending email to netbsd lists. I just
* received the message below, indicating that sure enough, someone is
* gatewaying a local newsgroup version of the mailing list onto DejaNews,
* apparently from idiom.com. greywolf's mail seems to come through
* idiom.com (so I take it he's one of the people discussed recently who
* isn't actually on the mailing list for various reasons and thus
* couldn't post to current-users etc. if it were subscribers only), so I
* take it that idiom.com isn't just doing this on behalf of spammers, but
* perhaps they could be gently persuaded not to publish the netbsd
* "groups".
Indeed my mail does come through idiom.com, as they're my ISP. I
find them to suit my needs rather nicely, and I have no complaints
about their service; that they seem to gateway SPAM is a concern to
me, and I have forwarded this message to its site administrator (if'n
ya don't mind).
I don't seem to have a problem posting to current-users, and I do appear
to be on the current-users list, since I'm getting current-users mail
[ in fact, I should be on current-users and port-sparc and one other;
I seem to recall unsubscribing to port-i386, although it doesn't
seem to have taken effect yet.]
Thanks for bringing this up.
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--*greywolf;
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When will people learn how to think!?? I long for the day to come when
software is purchased on the basis of technical merit and usefulness and not
on the basis of marketing bullsh*t. And when is intelligence going to become
a prerequisite for survival?