Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:41:30 -0500 (EST) | From | "D. Chiodo" <> | Subject | Re: News gateway problem |
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:11:57 -0500 (EST) > From: Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: News gateway problem > > > From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) > > > >>> I do NOT want my email address in any header. I am getting > >> > >> You should be able to put invalid addresses into your headers > >> yourself, regardless of whether you use the news or the mail > >> entry point. > > Poor, but it might be usable. > > > If you place false email addresses into your headers then if your > > traffic enters the UK at least you will be committing an offence. > > Hmmm, most of the spammers do that. Has one been prosecuted?
Perhaps if they were it would discourage future spammers. Have _you_ filed a legal complaint with the appropriate authorities concerning any of the sapm you have received?
> > The mail would come from vger, and it would have these headers intact: > > > From owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Tue Nov 19 17:17:31 1996 > > Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > > Is that good enough? I'm not a UK resident, so the transmission > to vger is legal. I would not pretend to be someone else. > > I still think the gateway and archives should obscure addresses. > I find spam in my mailbox every day, all of it because this list > exposes my address on usenet. > > Does anybody remember why we use a mailing list instead of a > newsgroup? Because vger has too much extra CPU power? :-) > No, because we like to avoid spam and dumb questions. Oh, and > because email is faster in theory.
Compared to usenet groups, this list has a fantastically high signal to noise ratio..
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