On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:59, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote: > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. > > > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > > email since partaking in this list: Nigerian 419 fraud email. That said, > > blocking the viewing of this list from lists.debian.org would be > > I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. > > > essentially irrelevant, as the group is also echoed in two Usenet > > newsgroups: linux.debian.users and somewhere in the muc tree (I went to > > type it and realised I didn't have the name all that handy, so I won't > > wing it.) Usenet groups have long been grepped for spam addresses in the > > message headers - that was a practice that came about over a decade ago > > even in the FidoNet days, although then it cost the senders for direct > > email. > > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a > topic such as this. Gating a mailing-list to usenet without mangling (or > better, removing them) is plain irresponsible. > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John Summerfield > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. It depends - I wouldn't post to any newsgroup that is already of interest to spammers, such as any of the alt.binaries groups, or news.admin.net-abuse.* (where posters get spammed just out of spite.) However, large parts of the Big-8 aren't that bad when it comes to address harvesters - occasionally it happens on some groups where the focus is related to a particular target market, but for most of those groups, vendors learned that any sort of spamming was counter-productive. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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