10 Mar
1999
10 Mar
'99
12:59 p.m.
Hi! Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
Unfortunately, such gateways tend to generate lots of spam on a mailinglist. You may want to think twice before doing this.
Even worse: Subscribers' email addresses would be visible in Usenet thus attracting more email spam (UBE). However when thinking over this, I feel that _not_ opening a mail/news gateway for this reason means kind of capitulation to the spammers. Opinions? Peter -- Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, http://home.pages.de/~Peter.Gerwinski/ Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - gpc-19990118 PGP key on request - 6C 94 45 BE 28 A4 96 - 0E CC E9 12 47 25 82 75 *** Vote against SPAM! ********* http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ***