Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 1998 16:17:06 -0700 | From | "D.A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] PLEASE MAINTAINERS STOP SPAMMERS !!!!!!!!!!! |
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On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 05:52:19PM -0400, Phil's Kernel Account wrote: > I'm sure the maintainers do everything they can to stop assholes like > this. I've already emailed abuse, postmaster, and root @as4phoenix.net. If > you're pissed off about it, you should do the same, not complain that the > occasional spam gets through. > > -Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net) > TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :) > Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586 > Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.0.33 #15 Fri Apr 17 00:22:13 EDT 1998 i586 > - Linus says for 'brave people only.' I say 'keep a backup.' - :)
Well something that usually can be done with mailing lists to stop spammers is to enforce subscribers-only posting. Where, obviously, only subscribers can post to the list. Quite often spammers don't bother to take the time to subscribe to a list before they spam it. Course it can cause a little more work for the list administrators, because if folks modify their e-mail (or more likely their site changes something), then you'll have people complaining about how they can post to the list anymore.
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