Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 1997 11:15:51 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction |
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
Spammers can also look at the archives of the linux mailing lists which are found in a lot of places. I cannot see any difference between a archive and my gating the stuff into usenet.
There is a huge difference, a spammer can more easily acquire tons of addresses anonymously without having to go through subscribing to various mailing lists, they just need a news feed. Essentially Usenet does their work for them, this is why I hate it so much.
A spammer needs to go through some external amount of effort to grab things off of a mailing list archive site (be it web based or whatever), but with usenet it requires no effort, they just get it, and since this is the easiest mechanism it is the one they are most likely to use.
---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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