tons of spam

[Kam Leo]

On 6/17/07, White RavenOak <ravenoak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:30 -0400, George wrote:
> > wow guys,
> > I've been signed up for this list for about a week and I've noticed a
> > ton of spam coming in now. I guess I should have used a different
> > address than my main one... I could stand the traffic, (and this is a
> > high traffic list!) but all the spam, no way.
> >
> > If redhat can't control things better than this on their lists, I'm
> > not sure I want to use fedora.
> >
> > thanks,
> > G.
> >
>
> Not sure *I* want you using Fedora.  Fedora is a bleeding-edge distro,
> not necessarily for the casual Linux user.  I just upgraded from FC6 to
> F7, afterward I had to do some mucking around with the installed RPMs
> because it would not update properly (I couldn't log in as my normal
> user because of beryl, updating was first step in troubleshooting).
> *I'm* OK with that, but someone who might not understand the subtleties
> of how spammers work, the relationship of a company and it's mailing
> list, and the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora, might not want to
> choose lightly.  Just saying.
>
>
> --
> Timothy Selivanow

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