On Thursday, August 16, 2012 13:09:56 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > 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.
In my experience, the primary source of spam is from mailing lists with leaks via friends accounts knowing my address being another. I don't generally get spam from addresses I use with stores. Most of my e-mail accounts have very little spam, and if I were getting enough spam, I'd seriously consider getting a new account. But even the spam from the mailing list is low enough that it's not all that big an issue (and I _never_ use spam filters without still looking at every e-mail to verify that it's spam - I just can't trust that it's going to be smart enough never to throw away something that I care about). But I probably should have obfuscated my e-mail address that I use for mailing lists the last time that I changed it (not much point now though). However, as much as I agree that considering any level of spam as acceptable and normal is a bit off, I still much prefer dealing with a mailing list than a newsgroup, since then I actually have syncing of what I've read across computers via IMAP. But it _is_ a bit odd that the beta list isn't treated the same as the others with regards to what interfaces it provides. - Jonathan M Davis _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
