On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:50:34 +0200 Leandro Lucarella <[email protected]> wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 16 de August a las 02:27 me escribiste: > > On 8/16/2012 2:13 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > >I'm starting to get a lot of bullshit like this on my "DMD > > >Beta-List-Only" email address, which means this mailing list is > > >an email harvesting ground. Which is not at all surprising > > >considering this mailing list is a...*mailing list*. > > > > Fortunately, thunderbird's spam filters do a reasonably good job for > > me. It's nowhere near the problem it used to be for that. > > And you have to deal with spam anyway, unless you manage to completely > avoid using e-mail, That's just simply not true, period. And that's easily one of the biggest myths on the internet: My primary address (which, yes, I do use, and more than any other address) doesn't get *any* spam, and I've been using it for years, *without* any spam filters on either the client or server side. The beauty of that is that not only do I *not* get any false positives for spam, it's not even *possible* to get false positives. Which is *exactly* as it should be. (What's the point of a spam folder if you have to go into it to get a legitimate message? None, it completely defeats the whole point.) The way I achieve this is by: 1. Only giving out my real address to real people, never machines, and only ever posting it with some "user [at] domain [dot] com" obfuscation (which is still generally avoided). 2. For machines: Such as mailing lists, website logins, businesses, etc., for these I create a special email address dedicated to that particular business, website, mailing list, etc., and don't use it for anything else. That way if I do get spam, I know exactly where the weakness is (DMD Beta's mailing list system, in this case), and can kill the email address and replace it with a new throwaway (if it's even worth it). No spam, no heuristic bullshit, no false positives. So yes, it *IS* possible, and not at all difficult. You'd be surprised just how few leaks there really are to email harvesters. Most systems are surprisingly resistent to leaking out addresses. Just not public mailing lists. _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
