email addresses and spam

[mva at sysfault.org]

Walter Ian Kaye <freebsd-org at natural-innovations.com>:

> All right, who released my email address to spammers?

This is a publicly available list (see lists.freebsd.org), so its likely
they grab the mail from it directly (or even read this list as well).

> I send mail to ports at freebsd.org, and 2 weeks later I get spam.
> That is not cool, people. You MUST make sure that never happens.

Why MUST that be made sure?

Regards
Marcus