On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:03:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Sidney Brooks writes: > > The price has been the endless spam, almost all which has either MS or > > Microsoft in the return addresses. > > That's not spam. That's Swen worms. Your ISP could filter it (but > probably won't). > > > Here is a suggested comprise. Let Debian set up two different debian-user > > lists, one with and one without posting of addresses. Let Debian warn new > > users of the situation and let them choose their list. > > There is no point in making such suggestions here. Those who manage this > list do not read it. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > BTW Swen is probably getting our addresses mostly from the mail->news > gateway and from the address books of infected users. Spammers scrape the > Web but Swen doesn't.
How do you KNOW where Swen is getting the addresses? Probably is good enough for idle conversation, but not good enough for crafting a solution. I like Karsten's suggestion for doing some research. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]