> But again, consider the services that tap into the lists by > subscribing to it rather than using the archives. Your e-mail > address will end up elsewhere regardless of what happens on the > Apache side of things.
True, but from my objectstyle.org sysadmin experience I only identified a single subscriber email address that was a likely spam bot in the past 3-4 years, while there is like a dozen of different spam bots scanning the web site daily. So empirical evidence suggests that spammers normally don't go into trouble of manually subscribing their bot... This maybe different for more high-traffic apache lists... Still I think protecting the archives is a simple step a sysadmin must implement. This is kind of like not running an open relay - it doesn't solve the global spam problem, but is still a sensible thing to do for your user community. Andrus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
