On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 19:48, Terry Lambert wrote: > It's a means of collecting email addresses, like the "joke of the > day" subscriptions with reply addresses that don't go to the > "joke of the day" site they pretend to be from. > > The expectation is that people will reply with information on > how to unsubscribe, thereby validating their emial addresses... > just like you do if you try to unsubscribe from the mailing > list that you never subscribed to in the first place. >
Why not catch (un)subscribe's to mailing lists? That wouldn't only stop people fishing for addresses, but also newbies and distracted people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
