Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:04:38 -0800 (PST) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: News gateway problem |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > Albert Cahalan writes: > > For mail-to-news, I ask that the From:, Reply-To:, and other > > headers with an email address be changed to have randomly > > generated addresses such as 1f98a759@f37a.3dcd.com.
This will make it impossible for anyone reading the newsgroup to make personal replies, unless they can deduce someone's address from a signature or some other reference. Moreover, the vger lists (linux-kernel anyway) are archived, so they're available that way without subscribing.
> over a month). Friends, if you can spare a minute, please send a > "please don't spam" message together with a uuencoded copy of > /usr/bin/emacs to the follow addresses: > > ab.general@atlas.uniserve.com > ktechsys@interport.net > decicco@ix.netcom.com
I sent a polite message to postmaster@atlas.uniserve.com, including the spam with all headers, which is often effective, but they're refusing connections. ___ Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.org>
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