Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction

Christoph Lameter (clameter@waterf.org)
Wed, 28 May 1997 08:02:53 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 28 May 1997, Horst von Brand wrote:

> > [Post contents of mailing lists without headers?]
>
> No use: Spammers do look at signatures &c, and if you reply on the list
> (like I'm doing now) some addresses will show up in the body. OTOH, if
> Linus or Dave posts something, I'd be inclined to give their opinions more
> weight than to the opinions of one Horst von Brand, longtime nondescript
> lurker ;-) and that info gets lost with the headers.
> --

Spammers can also look at the archives of the linux mailing lists which
are found in a lot of places. I cannot see any difference between a
archive and my gating the stuff into usenet.

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