On 18/10/2004 at 14:08 +0100, Adrian Lester wrote: > I'm sorry, I was asking a one off _favour_.
Don't be sorry ;-) > This was not a generic enquiry, rather related to one message. The way I > operate is by having email addresses @domain. One of those aliases is my > personal address which I do not use in places where it could be revealed > to spiders or sold on to lists. Another, this one, I use for mailing > lists etc. and the spam filters are applied to that (I care less about > the risks of filtering out genuine messages in that instance). At the > point when the incoming spam vastly outweighs other email I then close > the alias and create a new one, e.g. al1 becomes al2. My personal > address remains unaffected. I used to do this formerly. One day, spam and worms began to arrive at my "main" address. Then I installed spamassassin and clamav on my mail server (postfix) and now I'm very happy and don't have to worry about those aliases anymore. > Unfortunately I am used to usefully configured mailing lists set up for [ ... rant snipped ;-) ... ] Well, AFAIK, debian lists are archived on usenet news servers, so there's nothing the list admin can do to avoid the damage *you* did to yourself :-) -- Kiko Private mail is preferred encrypted: http://www.pirispons.net/pgpkey.html
