Re: [ANN] new mailing list
david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
24 Feb 1999 17:25:26 -0800
In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.04.9902241330030.2472-100000@fire.fireplace>,
Gerhard Mack <gmack@imag.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaw Carruthers wrote:
>
>>
>> Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to
>> linux-kernel can post.
>>
>> This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which
>> is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers.
>>
>> Quite a few newsgroups run like this.
>
>That still leaves open the possibillity of email address harvesting, and
>that seems a lot more common a problem than posting spam directly to
>the list.
Hmm?
It's probably been mentioned already, but it's pretty trivial to
do email address harvesting out of a mailing list.
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