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


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