Christopher, I understand your argument ..but -there's a but.. - It's not completely off topic since spam originated -as it seems from this newsgroup- - people are concerned or there would not have been so many DIFFERENT people involved even though the topic is neither religious nor political - There is a lot of discussion going on everywhere, even the lawmakers and whole countries are working on this issue (http://www.nigeriaembassyusa.org/419statement.shtml http://www.419fraud.com/ ) - It's good to read about spam-assassin, which -I guess- several members of this newsgroup (including myself) have now installed. - I also learned that bouncing can worsen things, which is why I stopped doing it.
So, concluding: I agree that some might see our short discussion as background noise. I've said all I have to contribute and have learned a few things that I had not thought about; we let off some steam about the annoyance that we all 'enjoy'; I personally profited a lot and thank for the input everybody contributed. My horizon has been definitely expanded. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2003 10:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:42:41PM +0100, David Sharp wrote: > >I reckon it is not Spam itself that is blocking up the net, it is all > >the bouncing programs and people visiting websites to try and > >unsubscribe from the lists. > > That and people discussing spam on mailing lists. > -- > Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. > Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
