I guess I assumed it was as a result of being subscribed, the list being available or something. I'll see what I can do in terms of spam blockers.
Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Hruska To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [c-prog] spam from the list? Brett McCoy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Tyler Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After I signed up here, I've been getting about 5-10 messages a day. >> They're all refering to the same thing. Some dude with a yahoo/live address >> who would like to bless me in the name of <insert lord>, some accident >> happened to <insert random name>, and he's left with <insert random amount >> of millions of dollars>. I, being the amazingly lucky person I am to receive >> 5+ of these a day, am going to receive this money and it's confidencial, so >> I can't tell anyone. Besides the fact that the person writing these doesn't >> seem to have taken english classes, their common sense seems to be lacking >> horribly. Because we're all going to send our bank account numbers to a >> yahoo.com.jp/h/other random domain, and eagerly await millions of dollars. >> So, now that the rant is over, I was wondering if there's a way to stop >> these. I'm not going to just hand over my bank account number, so we could >> save the ozone and my inbox. > > They aren't literally coming from this list, someone is sending them > with a spoofed address, most likely This list is heavily moderated and > we don't tolerate spammers at all. Your best bet is to set up spam > filtering > > -- Brett c-prog is a heavily moderated list. Only once in a blue moon does a piece of spam make it through. That user quickly goes back on moderation. c-prog is also a public list - your e-mail address is getting published on the Internet via the various bots that archive this list (some of which probably harvest addresses for spam purposes). I get roughly 3,000 spam messages per day (99% of all incoming e-mail). Spambayes is extremely effective, blocking all but a half-dozen daily. When I get annoyed, I'll fire up the web interface and mark one of the entries as spam. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
