This is the mail archive of the cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: startxwin: cannot unlink


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:50:25AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
>>>--- Chris Green <chris<at>areti<dot>co<dot>uk> wrote:
>>Please configure your mail client to not quote raw e-mail addresses in
>>replies -- they're just so much fodder for spambots.
>>
>I don't believe that E-Mail addresses appearing here attract much spam.

The sources log file is filled with spam attempts to accounts on
sources.redhat.com/cygwin.com that obviously came from reaping email
addresses from mailing lists.

>According to research done on this the vast bulk of spam gets to
>addresses which appear on (popular) web pages and my experience bears
>this out.

That sort of presupposes that the mailing list archives are not popular.
That's debatable.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]