Mailing List Archive: Administrivia: spam and non-subscriber submissions

I have just disabled posting to the openssh-unix-dev list for
non-subscribers due to spam. If you are reading this message from
the list then this change should have exactly zero effect on you.

Non-members who post to the list will be bounced to me for approval.
If I get more than a couple of emails from such people I will
authorise them to post.

It looks like some scumbag has trawled the webpages recently because
all the addresses listed there are getting the same spam messages.
IMO spam is still preferable to dead-tree advertising :)

-d

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| Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 03:56:23AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> It looks like some scumbag has trawled the webpages recently because
> all the addresses listed there are getting the same spam messages.

And this is a problem with the list archive too: unfortunately, the From
addresses are not hidden by default----I for one started to get spam
from the same source, after a 4 month break.

Whoever does the archiving: please hide the from headers, and perhaps
provide a switch to show it.

> IMO spam is still preferable to dead-tree advertising :)

My address alone gets over 200 rejected spam/day, and I get 3 ads in
the mail/week. The danger in spam is that unprotected servers get
easily overwhelmed by them. Once a while, we get desparate people
asking for help on the qmail list because their server is completely
bogged down by a spammer trying to relay a million message through the
server.

I do understand your point, though. But I think spammers (like the one
the list got) advertise stuff not suitable for service mail
advertising. So I would just say: both are bad.

Mate