Re: Spamming (OT)

[Ramon Gandia <rfg nook net>]

Davidson John wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> It seems every time I post to this list, I get hit by a load of email
> rubbish about two days later. Is it just me, or does this happen to
> other people?

Yep.  The suits at Red Hat are echoing this list to USENET and the Spam
is starting to roll in.

Pretty soon we are going to have to resort to USENET tricks to guise
our addresses.  Like I could beocme

rxfxgx nook net  please remove the three x's to mail me....

and their ilk.  The whole idea of a mailing list is to avoid this
horseshit, and now we are echoed to usenet.

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