On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 18:13, Jon Earle wrote: > This open list policy that so many lists have, while it _may_, and I'm > placing a lot of faith and emphasis on the 'may', offer the occasional > newbie or (individual who couldn't be bothered to subscribe multiple > addresses) the ability to post[1], that, coupled with gatewaying to news, > I feel is just plain irresponsible. It's a _very_ poorly thought out > policy that I feel does more to harm the list community that help > (particularly the list gateway to news).
Harm is done by those running their systems (or even selling these systems) in a way that makes such mass-mailing possible. (Actually, I think you just met W32/Swen, one of the most active worms by now.) No matter how you want to restrict the list policy - as long as the list is publicly available for reading (and it has to be), there are ways to gather addresses from every posting. -- Martin Stigge * Remove the -spam part of my From: address * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
