Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists

William M. Quarles walrus at bellsouth.net
Wed Apr 13 17:49:51 UTC 2005


David Cary Hart wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:36 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted
>>e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss.  If you are
>>even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and
>>not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator
>>directly at <listname-admin at redhat.com>.  If someone knows how to get
>>the word out on the international lists or to their administrators
>>(since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so.  If someone knows
>>who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail
>>addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person
>>who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact
>>him or her and let us know how to contact that person.
>>
> 
> The problem is spam not the lists nor list management.

True but the list management could take on small step to protect all of 
us, so I don't see why they shouldn't do it, particularly when they have 
already taken a similar step on Red Hat website.




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