I don't have whitelists, blacklists, special filters or anything. Is it just the magic server-side SPAM filters?
Yeah servers do have a good amount of spam detection techniques. They usually run many spam detection tools and puts all your spam mails in a bulk or junk folder. Spam assasin is the de facto open source spam solution and it has various techniques to detect spam. It could be configured in the server side and/or the client side.
I have 2 spammy email addresses (yahoo and hotmail). I get 'spam'
Mark this spam (part of many web email systems) makes the system learn about spam message. Spam assasin (or other spam solutions) also has this Bayesian model of spam where the system starts learning about the mails you get. So its a fine tuned effective solution for your needs, but you may need a combination of different spam techniques apart from the bayesian filters.
My OSAF email I get tons of spam, even though I've never intentionally handed it out, but it's publicly available through our
I think OSAF needs to change all the email addresses in the public with something more obscure. email addresses of the type mimi at osafoundation dot org may help. But obscuring it even more will be good and will prevent getting spam messages. Mostly the everyone mailing list in osaf is spammed heavily and I think it needs stricter rules.
How naive is it to hope that the email addresses we provide for shared collections could escape SPAM the way my personal email addresses seem to have escaped SPAM?
Obscuring the email address in a way humans can read and not let the bots read it. But it would be a different problem when it comes to collections having a link to an email address (mailto).
Is ' we don't have resources to implement an effective server-side SPAM solution' an argument for shifting the burden of preventing/ managing SPAM onto the user in the short-term?
Spam assasin should be a good candidate. Most clients around have integration with spam assasin or have some custom solution. For example my evolution client has a mark this email as junk option.
What are other people's experiences with email accounts and SPAM?
I have many personal email accounts which I rarely give out anywhere and does not get spammed that much. I think I have given out my gmail address in a few occasions, but still the spam detection is pretty neat. Very rarely I get a legitimate message marked as spam and I rarely see any spam messages. My OSAF id is spammed heavily, mostly with mails targetted to everyone at osafoundation. The server does mark the messages as SPAM and I have a filter to put it into a SPAM folder. But still one or two spam messages does reach the Inbox. -- Vinu In a world without fences who needs Gates? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
