Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list | Date | 24 Feb 1999 17:25:26 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.04.9902241330030.2472-100000@fire.fireplace>, Gerhard Mack <gmack@imag.net> wrote: >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaw Carruthers wrote: > >> >> Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to >> linux-kernel can post. >> >> This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which >> is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers. >> >> Quite a few newsgroups run like this. > >That still leaves open the possibillity of email address harvesting, and >that seems a lot more common a problem than posting spam directly to >the list.
Hmm?
It's probably been mentioned already, but it's pretty trivial to do email address harvesting out of a mailing list.
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