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Re: Too Much Mail Volume


On  2 Dec 97 at 15:38, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote:

> In article <6j3hsQAppfB@mike.franken.de>,
> Michael Hirmke <mh@mike.franken.de> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >>I second the idea of moving this mailing list to a newsgroup.
> >
> >No. This isn't a high traffic mailing list compared to a lot of other
> >lists I am on.
> 
> I vote emphatically against moving this to a newsgroup.  I don't think
> that the traffic justifies it.  Also, we'll all be subject to much more
> spam both from the newsgroup spammers and from the spammers who harvest
> mail addresses from newsgroup headers.
> 
> If cygwin or some well-connected site wanted to set up a private NNTP
> server to host a private newsgroup, however, I think that would be a
> great idea.

	I can agree to this.  It means, of course, that whoever does set up the 
NNTP server will need to make doubly-certain that they can't be attacked 
by any email moles that are capable of rapeing an NNTP server by stripping 
out all of the email addresses stored therein.

	Peace,

		Paul G.


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