On 10 Mar 99, at 12:59, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
Even worse: Subscribers' email addresses would be visible in Usenet thus attracting more email spam (UBE).
I am a newcomer to this list, but I have had extensive experience with other lists (e.g., GNAT, Cygwin). I will not post messages to lists that have been gatewayed to Usenet, simply because each time that my real e-mail address appears on Usenet, I receive a flood of spam that takes nearly a year to taper off. I willingly contribute to closed lists and enjoy the high signal-to-noise ratio that such lists often have. I resign myself to lurking on those that are not (e.g., the Pegasus Mail list), even if I have information that may be of help.
If the perceived problem is that GPC users are unaware of the mailing list, I would suggest that the solution would be more prominent display of that information, especially subscription information, in the accompanying README files and on the GPC Web site.
However when thinking over this, I feel that _not_ opening a mail/news gateway for this reason means kind of capitulation to the spammers.
I would rather "capitulate" to them than be constantly annoyed by them.
(And I don't agree that it is capitulation; it is accepting the reality of the Internet. Is it capitulation to our automotive society to look both ways before crossing the street? :-)
-- Dave Bryan