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From: Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spam-to-news gateway
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:59:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.19170.1134497283.20277.info-gnus-english@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y68wti9nhrc.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>

On 12/13/05, David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> wrote:
> Does anybody send legitimate mail to info-gnus-english@gnu.org?  It
> appears to me to be an unmonitored mail-to-news gateway, which makes
> gnu.emacs.gnus the only newsgroup I read that has substantial spam
> (ironic, given that the concept originated in news).  spam-stat makes
> this a little better, but it's still kind of annoying.

But of course, I do.  I might reconsider if you tell me of a usable free
usenet server in North America.

--
"Political systems do not deal easily
with long term threats,
even if they have a probability of 100%"
James Schlesinger, a former director of the CIA


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-13 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-13 15:23 David Z Maze
2005-12-13 16:21 ` Reiner Steib
2005-12-13 17:59 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2006-01-06  9:02   ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-07  3:51     ` nobrowser
2006-01-07  3:55     ` nobrowser
2006-01-08 13:20       ` David Z Maze
2006-01-15  9:36     ` Fred Chu
2006-01-15 11:04       ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-01-06 14:12   ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2006-01-07  3:52     ` nobrowser

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