Re: news gateways
On Sun, Dec 14 1997 1:09 GMT bruce@va.debian.org writes:
> We should be cognizant that people do troll for mailto: URLs and spam them.
^^^^
This is the real problem IMO with the problem below.
> The major problem is that the WWW list archives get into search engines,
> and then clueless people search for keywords and fire off questions to
> anyone knowledgable that they find.
Or much worse: spam the posters with the addresses.
I'm getting lately a constant share of UCEs (mostly from the US and Hong Kong),
who got their addresses probably from Debian-Lists or the Bug-System.
What do the other people do against it? It is annoying, since spam consumes
bandwidth and costs me money to download. The upstream ISPs mostly seem
unwilling/unable/incompetent to do anything.
(if this discussion is inappropriate on debian-devel, move it debian-private)
David
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: