Re: A note to Red Hat about spam.

[Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk>]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, E Nigma wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:08, you wrote:
> > On Monday, December 31, 2001, Ed Bailey wrote:
> > > I've passed your email on to our IT folks; will pass on to the list any
> > > response I get...
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > Mine may be a minority opinion, but I don't believe Red Hat can or should be
> > held accountable for the inappropriate actions of a few a**holes. We can
> only
>
>
> Red Hat helps them by publishing email addresses in fora where spammers can
> find them without really trying.
>
> it's Red Hat's action I complained about to this list.

 They do tell you it's archived when you sign up, don't they?  There's
a link to the archive under the listinfo, at least.

 They're only republishing what we send to the list.

 Now, requiring a password to view the archive might be achievable.

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Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, GTS Netcom
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