[Exim] Re: comp.mail.exim Newsgroup.

In message <200301201121.aa21394@???>
Dennis Davis writes:

> No, in my experience it would get spammed a *lot*.

That's affirmative...

> The comp.os.plan9 Newsgroup is run in a similar manner to what's
> suggested above. Articles on the mailing list are injected into the
> Newsgroup and Newsgroup articles are injected back into the mailing
> list. Most of the traffic is still on the mailing list with a lot
> less articles arriving via the Newsgroup.

With one noted side effect: articles from the mailing list have
known good email addresses. That makes a newsgroup that is a
mailing list echo into a ideal location to harvest addresses.

> I'd very strongly recommend that a comp.mail.exim Newsgroup is
> moderated and a moderator found. I'd almost certainly vote against
> a comp.mail.exim Newsgroup that wasn't moderated.

And I'll add my additional need. Any echo of the mailing list
to a newsgroup will do so in such a way that email addresses cannot
be harvested, either from the headers or the body of the posting.

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Randall Raemon
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