Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:27:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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On 24 Feb 1999, david parsons wrote:
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.04.9902241330030.2472-100000@fire.fireplace>, > Gerhard Mack <gmack@imag.net> wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaw Carruthers wrote: > > > >> > >> Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to > >> linux-kernel can post. > >> > >> This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which > >> is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers. > >> > >> Quite a few newsgroups run like this. > > > >That still leaves open the possibillity of email address harvesting, and > >that seems a lot more common a problem than posting spam directly to > >the list. > > Hmm? > > It's probably been mentioned already, but it's pretty trivial to > do email address harvesting out of a mailing list. > > ____ > david parsons \bi/ linux-kernel: "|/home/spam-king/harvest" > \/ I know ... it's being done now, the volume of spam goes up noticably every time I post to linux-kernel.
Gerhard
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