Re: [GENERAL] postgresql website
Richard Lynch <lynch@lscorp.com>
From: lynch@lscorp.com (Richard Lynch)
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-07-14T22:46:29Z
Lists: pgsql-general
At 8:07 AM 7/14/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Martin wrote: > >> p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the >> mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic... >> We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT > > Actually, the newsgroups are purely one-directional at this >time...mail to the lists goes out to the groups, but not vice-versa...spam >is not coming in through them, except if they are culling the groups for >email addresses... Which they are. I mean, sad to say, that's the only purpose for newsgroups these days: A source for 57 million fresh e-mail addresses for MLMs to sell. :-( In other mailing lists, one can write [NONEWS] in one's heading to keep one's post (and therefore email address) out of the newsgroups. Would this be easy/feasible/hard with majordomo? -- -- -- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@lscorp.com