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SubjectRe: UseNet Gateway One Way ok?
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.970524223052.291C-100000@crl5.crl.com>,
Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl5.crl.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 25 May 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:
>
>> > Someone told me about the post below. I hope a gateway that does NOT allow
>> > a flow back is ok?
>>
>> A concern about that would be that someone who wishes to send unsolicited
>> mass e-mail could get access to the newsfeed, then extract e-mail
>> addresses from it. This wouldn't bother me much, because I'm already
>> "subscribed" to Cyberpromo's list. I remember from the last time this was
>> discussed that others were bothered a lot by this possibility, and
>> demanded their addresses be altered so spammers couldn't use them. Those
>> on the other side said this would make it difficult to reply, yadda yadda
>> yadda.
>
>I tend to agree here. Unless the feed can be restricted to people with a
>certified clue, I tend to be against such a one way feed. I have enough
>problems with the fuckwits at agis.net as it is without having to deal
>with other, admittidly lesser, spamming idiots.

If it's a one-way feed, it could be set up to mangle headers so that
only a human can figure them out. Rot13 the from: address, or put
spaces in it, or anything along those lines.


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