On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:02:16 BST, Alex Hunsley writes: >Who runs the debian list? I emailed the list owner address a little while ago >and haven't received a response. What I said in this email was: I think that i >t >is an omission not to say in the confirm list subscription email message that >all messages will be forwarded to usenet. I had no idea about this, so several >messages with my un-munged address are on usenet, and I'm getting barrels of >spam now. Surely it would be polite for the subscription process to mention >that your messages end up on usenet? The list->news - gateways aren't being run by debian, they're being set up by other people and thus the listmaster(s) have no influence over them. But OTOH, I post here since ~ 2 years, with an unmangled address, and haven't seen any increase in spam. cheers, &rw -- -- A classic is something that everyone wants -- to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain
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