On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:28:04PM +0300, Heikki Tuuri wrote the following: > Ian, > > note that the MySQL mailing list is also forwarded to the > mailing.database.myodbc Usenet group, as well as to several mailing list > archiving websites. Spam robots and viruses have plenty of places from which > to harvest your email address if you write to this list. > > I personally receive some 2000 viruses and 300 spam emails per day to my > email address.
I'm subscribed to at least 2 dozen mailing lists (I'm active on about a 1/4 of them, the others are informational for programs or interests I have) and I don't get nearly that many viruses and spam, even in a week. -- AIM: pres CTHULHU | ICQ: 18115568 | Yahoo: pagan_prince Jabber: DarkKnightRadick@(jabber.org|amessage.at) | Libertarian @ Large PGP: 0x642F7BDA | < http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tennesseans-for-badnarik/ > < http://mc-luug.homelinux.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-luug >
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