Re: 1/2 Price Omaha Steaks Plus 3 FREE Gifts!
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:43:26PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 04:47 PM 6/16/2003 +0000, John Holroyd wrote:
> >On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:26, Omaha Steaks wrote:
> >> Dear Friend,
> >>
> ><snips silliness>
> >
> >Seriously,
> >
> >Does Debian have much success in forcing these spammers to pay the
> >fin^^^^ fees mentioned on the mailing list pages?
>
> Not sure about debian-security, but debian-user, for example, is an "open"
> list.
deb-sec is open, too.
> You do NOT need to subscribe to send messages *to* the list. So, you
> certainly don't have to visit the mailing list pages or "agree" to any
> terms, such as sending "spam" to the list.
>
> The "fee" or "fine" is a joke, right ?? :-)
No, it's not! Sometime in the past couple years, there was a message
advertising something Linux-related, sent by someone reputable (don't
remember who, or what they were advertising, since I wasn't in the market
for it at the time). The message explained that the fee had been payed
ahead of time. I'm not sure if Debian's ever managed to get money from any
"normal spammers", but I'm sure it doesn't usually happen.
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