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Re: [GENERAL] postgresql website

Richard Lynch <lynch@lscorp.com> — 1998-07-14T22:46:29Z

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?

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-- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@lscorp.com