On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Oct 15, Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> wrote:
> > > Many people noticed the increasing level of spam these
> > > days. I do consider that the web archives of the debian
> > > lists help spammers a lot since they provide email
> > > addresses as is.
> > This is pointless. Your email address is probably already in a million
> > other places (like on Usenet, as all important debian mailing lists are
> > gated to linux.debian.* newsgroups).
>
> For the good of our subscribers, we should not allow our lists to be gated
> to newsgroups. Does not Debian have the authority to forbid such thing?
I think the gate to Usenet is a valuable service.
yours,
peter
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