On 06/05/2007 06:47 AM, Ron Goral wrote:
I am leaving this list even though I've been here for several years. While I
find the information and ideas exchanged very helpful, I am fully disgusted
by the amount of spam I receive. Over this last weekend, of 172 emails I
received from this list, 52 were spam. That's nearly 1 in every 3. I am told
that I get this spam simply because I sent a couple emails to the list and
that exposed this exclusive address to these spammers. Well, say what you
will, but I feel it is the list manager's job to protect me from this crap.
Since they either can't or won't, I'm signing off and deleting this mailbox.
I almost never get spammed to the address I use for this list. Spammer's
don't like to send to e-mail addresses that have certain words in them,
and my address has them both.
Anyway, I must disagree with you when you say it's the list-manager's
responsibility to protect you from spam. No, your mailbox is your
responsibility.
Unsubscribing deleting the mailbox and resubscribing with a better
address is the smart option.
There are several things you can do as part of your responsibility to
protect your mailbox from spam:
1) Use a mailbox that's specifically set up to receive mail only from
this list. It's filters would send any message that doesn't have
"List-Id: <beginners.perl.org>" to the trash.
2) Subscribe with an e-mail address that spammers don't like to
spam--like I do.
3) Use a mailreader that has better junk filters such as Mozilla
Thunderbird. You can obtain it from here: http://www.mozilla.com/
4) Unsubscribe.
Whatever you do, you don't use an "exclusive e-mail address" to post to
a publicly accessible mailing list that's archived on the web.
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