On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Rob wrote: > I think spamfilters are doing already a good job here; spam that makes > it through to the lists, seems to be fairly small. In addition, I > believe it's the policy of the list maintainers, to keep the thresshold > as low as possible for participation in the Q&A. You can avoid > subscription by following the newsgroup instead (e.g. on gmane).
So it's already filtered? OK, I guess I'll stay :-) > However, there's a more serious problem: all emails to the FreeBSD lists > are propagated to public newsgroups and archives with the original > (private) email addresses unmodified. Since the newsgroups and archives > are public, it's a great source of email addresses for spammers. That is indeed a *huge* problem, and should be addressed. > Especially innocent people, who just want to ask a question, will > suffer, since they may realize too late (if not even never realizing at > all!) that the lists are actually advertising their private email > addresses on the public newsgroups and archives. And these are the ones who will tell their friends: "I tried FreeBSD, and since then I've got all this spam!" Not good for the cause. And in case anyone's wondering, I block by source, not by content. > It would be much better if propagation to the newsgroups and archives > would scramble the private email addresses, to make such lists unusable > for collectors of email addresses for sending spam. Trivial to do; just replace "@" with something that a machine cannot easily parse. -- Dave _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
