Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/10/28/00:19:06
> to eliminate our mail addresses? The RedHat axp list does this. None
> of the exchanges on the list have people's return addresses. All
> responses are automatically routed to the list.
My comment on this is that it eliminates the opportunity to take the
conversation off-line, since nobody can get to you other than through
the mailing list. I'm also a little paranoid about messing with the
mailing list setup, considering the amount of traffic it gets.
> Why? I'm getting spammed at my login address about ten times a week.
Better you than the djgpp mailing list and newsgroup.
> My guess is that these people are still culling their lists from
> newsgroups. While I have seen that there is hope for legal solutions
> to the spamming virus, I wouldn't mind losing email addresses on our
> list responses as an additional deterrent.
Hit "d". I don't see how one or two extra keystrokes a day warrants
rewriting my mailing list software and losing the identity of the
poster.
If it really bothers you, switch to Emacs, Netscape mail/news, or some
other agent that allows you to specify a bogus return e-mail address,
like "dont-spam-me AT you DOT bonehead". That's better than having the djgpp
list itself get onto the spammer's mailing lists!
DJ
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