On 11:26 20 Aug 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Alas! Jason L Tibbitts III spake thus: | > Why do you think this list sees so little spam when anyone can post to | > it? | | I have seen a number of lists in which anybody subscribed can post | without restriction, but messages that come from people who are not | subscribed are either a) rejected or b) sent to the list admin for | approval. | | Since I've *never* seen a spammer who subscribes to mailing lists just | to spam them (unless you want to start talking about trolls, but that's | different), then that method works very well. [...]
As postmaster where I work, I've seen several subscription attempts from spammers, presumably a prelude to actual spam. Seems to have dropped off - common a couple of years ago, nothing recently. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Did you ever hear anyone say 'that work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? - Joseph Henry Jackson, American Journalist, 1894-1946 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
