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Re: Too Much Mail Volume
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Too Much Mail Volume
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:43:01 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <EKKJFz.39x@bbc.com> <199712040152.UAA15020@bw.webex.net>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <199712040152.UAA15020@bw.webex.net>,
Paul Garceau <pgarceau@submergedsoftware.com> wrote:
>On 2 Dec 97 at 15:38, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >>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.
God, I hate spam.
--
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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