Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/04/11:00:56
In article <199712040152 DOT UAA15020 AT bw DOT webex DOT net>,
Paul Garceau <pgarceau AT submergedsoftware DOT com> wrote:
>On 2 Dec 97 at 15:38, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >>I second the idea of moving this mailing list to a newsgroup.
>> >
>> >No. This isn't a high traffic mailing list compared to a lot of other
>> >lists I am on.
>>
>> I vote emphatically against moving this to a newsgroup. I don't think
>> that the traffic justifies it. Also, we'll all be subject to much more
>> spam both from the newsgroup spammers and from the spammers who harvest
>> mail addresses from newsgroup headers.
>>
>> If cygwin or some well-connected site wanted to set up a private NNTP
>> server to host a private newsgroup, however, I think that would be a
>> great idea.
>
> I can agree to this. It means, of course, that whoever does set up the
>NNTP server will need to make doubly-certain that they can't be attacked
>by any email moles that are capable of rapeing an NNTP server by stripping
>out all of the email addresses stored therein.
God, I hate spam.
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