Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com)

jungleboogie0 jungleboogie0 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 21:34:15 UTC 2014


Hi Steve,
On 30 April 2014 13:12, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:15:46 -0500
> Mike Sanders <tmp1 at freebsd.hypermart.net> wrote:
>
>> Which implies all list members email addresses are exposed
>> to the world at large? How else would an email address be
>> gained by spammers... If that's the case it needs to be changed.
>
>         I think it's only hitting posters, whose addresses are revealed in
> the From header. I'll probably get some extra spam now. Given that it is
> desirable that non subscribers can post questions and get replys thanks to
> the common habit of replying to all this is unavoidable without sacrificing
> that capability which has been a long standing and valued feature of
> FreeBSD mailing lists.
>

But this also means messages to the list could be lost because not
everyone remember to reply-all.


> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>



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