.......... Wed 27.Mar'13 at 15:39:45 -0700 Angela Barone ...........
> I just noticed something that's very disconcerting. Our email
> addresses are being posted online from this mailing list. Does anyone know
> about this? I was doing a search when I came across this page:
>
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/2013/03/msg122680.html
>
> As you can see, my email address is there for the world to see. Is
> there a way to prevent this from happening? It seems it would be so easy for
> someone to scape that site for our addresses. The list blocks the address of
> the sender, but if there's an address in the body of the email, it's sent
> through.
>
> Very shortly after I posted to this list I started getting spam. I
> couldn't figure out what had happened, but this could be why.
Just set up a gmail account and have it forward messages to your server and
then use the gmail address for mailing list communication. I personally just
have OpenBSD spamd, spamassassin and blacklist stuff I don't want. It works
well.
Jamie.
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