Re: UseNet Gateway One Way ok?

Kevin 'Frostbyte' McCormick (fbyte@sub-zero.mit.edu)
Sun, 25 May 1997 00:55:20 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 25 May 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> A concern about that would be that someone who wishes to send unsolicited
> mass e-mail could get access to the newsfeed, then extract e-mail
> addresses from it. This wouldn't bother me much, because I'm already
> "subscribed" to Cyberpromo's list. I remember from the last time this was
> discussed that others were bothered a lot by this possibility, and
> demanded their addresses be altered so spammers couldn't use them. Those
> on the other side said this would make it difficult to reply, yadda yadda
> yadda.

It's already happening. I just posted two messages to linux-kernel in the
past day (my first in about a year) and, within hours, I got two messages
from Cyber Promotions. Same message both times, using exactly the address
with which I posted to linux-kernel. And it was in Portuguese. A lot of
good that does me.

Is there any way to prevent this crap besides hoping it becomes illegal?

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