On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian >lists. > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > email since partaking in this list: Nigerian 419 fraud email. That said, > blocking the viewing of this list from lists.debian.org would be
I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. > essentially irrelevant, as the group is also echoed in two Usenet > newsgroups: linux.debian.users and somewhere in the muc tree (I went to > type it and realised I didn't have the name all that handy, so I won't > wing it.) Usenet groups have long been grepped for spam addresses in the > message headers - that was a practice that came about over a decade ago > even in the FidoNet days, although then it cost the senders for direct > email. Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a topic such as this. Gating a mailing-list to usenet without mangling (or better, removing them) is plain irresponsible. -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
