At 12:20 p -0700 05/24/2007, Chuck Swiger didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On May 24, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
All right, who released my email address to spammers?
Nobody. Spammers routinely search for email addresses by scraping
Google, websites, mailing list archives, and even word-list
dictionaries or random number generators.
I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and 2 weeks later I get spam.
That is not cool, people. You MUST make sure that never happens.
Now I have to blacklist this address. Sheesh.
Welcome to the Internet, as (presumably!) you are new here.
Hardly new. Been here for 15 years.
The FreeBSD postmaster already spends a lot of resources to try to
keep these mailing lists (mostly) spam-free, but there's nothing
that we can do to prevent a spammer from sending email to you after
you've chosen to make your email address available by sending mail
to a public list, and this is going to be true of other mailing
lists elsewhere, web forums, Usenet, and so forth.
I had NO idea this was a public list. I THOUGHT it was a private
distribution to the ports people. Now you (all) understand my
surprise.
Most people deal with spam by setting up some combination of MTA
checking, greylisting, and spam-filtering via Amavis/SpamAssassin/
dspam/ClamAV/etc rather than creating new email addresses, but you
can do as you see fit.
I do both. In fact, I wrote my own spam filter in Perl, and it
deletes 95% of the email which arrives, catching 99% of the spam. I
had *whitelisted* this special recipient address to ensure I got the
mail I wanted, but now I see I cannot keep it whitelisted, or else it
will be whitelisting spam as well. :/
Perhaps I can conditionally whitelist it if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is one
of the recipients. Maybe that's the best setup.
So now that everything's clear (I hope), let's put this thread to rest.
Thank you.
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