Michael Adams wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:54:50 +0200 > Came this utterance formulated by Kristofer Åberg to my mailbox: > >> > >> > what makes you sure that spammers did not arrive at your website, >> > rather than this list? >> >> Our web site is built with Joomla (another great open source project) >> which hides the e-mail addresses from spam bots - try shutting off >> your JavaScript when viewing the site and you will not be able to see >> the e-mail address. >> > > http://floatingsun.net/articles/on-email-obfuscation/ > > If it looks like an email address it can be harvested. There is an > option in Joomla! to not publish email addresses and i recommend this > method, especially as there is a contact form. > > But aside from that, I have been on this list for several years and > though the list may facilitate harvesting the best defence method AFAIK > is to use an outbound and inbound address for emails to lists. Subscribe > both addresses but never collect emails from the one that you send > emails out on. Yes you loose emails addressed personally, but if you set > reply-to munging to explicitly force replies to the list, then even this > is reduced. It is a simple matter to set the server to drop all incoming > mail to a given email address. My ISP is happy to let the mailbox > accumulate emails which they purge periodically.
That's the strategy I'm following also (see my sig). For anything else than the mails to the lists I'm subscribed to, I let Thunderbird sort out the spam and it does it very successfully. Only those mails to my "nospam" address that are not classified as spam are visible to me and there are only a few of them. The spam threat coming from our mailing list archive seems to be a little bit overrated. I get only a low two-digit number per day though I'm subscribed to many lists since back to 2000. And, as I wrote, most of them are caught by Thunderbird's spam filter. Nevertheless, I can understand if others have a different opinion about that and as there is not much sense to show the mail addresses in the archive, I would opt for removing or obfuscating them if that was possible. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
