Brian Behlendorf dijo: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2004, David Crossley wrote: >> Antonio Gallardo wrote: >> > David Crossley dijo: >> > > I also made a bigger effort to use my apache.org address >> > > for all Apache-related stuff. >> > >> > I almost never use my apache.org address and I am getting spam. ... >> >> This is what i was intending to say. Not necessarily because of >> my use of the apache.org address, but because of spam via address >> harvesting and spoofing. > > It's just not that hard to figure out why and how. Go to Google and type > in your email address and see what comes up. In the case of > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 149 separate references come up. In Antonio's case, > there are 15 hits to his name. The top hits in both cases come from > marc.theaimsgroup.com. So long as the From: line in email mailing > lists has a valid email address, there will be spam sent to that address. > > One thing that users may not be aware of is that qmail allows them to use > variants of their addresses - basically they can extend > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail to that > address would be handled with a .qmail-anything file in your home dir on > minotaur. You could decide to bitbucket that easily, if you were using > e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > something that clearly indicated the idea that it should be stripped out.
Hi Brian: Thanks for the tip. I was wondering why I got spam with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similars. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
