Re: list etiquette
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:02:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> 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 it 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?
To be honest I suspect more spam these days is going to come from
spammers trawling the list archives on the web. I'm not sure how many
ISPs even carry the linux.* hierarchy.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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