On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:15:31PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: > On 20.08.2013 14:43, staticsafe wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:15:31PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: > >>On 19.08.2013 18:44, staticsafe wrote: > >>>The biggest problem being spam. We need to educate typical e-mail users > >>>about e-mail hygiene and spam fighting. > >> > >>What do you mean by «e-mail hygiene» and «spam fighting»? > > > >E-mail hygiene: > >- Using aliases for every company you deal with, or using recipient > > delimiters like "+" so it is easier to find out which company sold you > > out. > >- Exercise more caution when handing out your "primary" address > >- Avoid services that like to spam your addressbook (see: LinkedIn etc.) > > > >Spam fighting: > >- Using DNSBLs to cut down on the crap > >- Training spamassassin's DB with ham and spam. > >- Enact rate limiting policies so that a compromised account can only do > > limited amount of damage. > > Oops. My bad. > > Than what do you mean by «typical e-mail user»? >
Someone who primarily uses webmail and big e-mail service providers. Probably doesn't even /care/ about e-mail, e-mail isn't cool after all. ;) -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post. Please don't CC! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on.
