From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: Too Much Mail Volume
4 Dec 1997 11:00:56 -0800
Message-ID: <EKo3Fp.22p.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <EKKJFz DOT 39x AT bbc DOT com>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

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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