> > [snip] > > > > I can't really tell, I was only stunned by the swift response from the > > spammer community. I received a spam mail only a few hours after posting > > for the first time with this address, which has been made only for > > receiving gentoo-list mail. > > I would still guess that it is a web spider that got your address. > Many of the archives are immediate, and so it is possible a web > spider just happened to check the list archive web page several hours > after you posted. Spammers probably have their web spiders running at > all times. Maybe, it's this way. However - best practice is still to use a single mail account only for subscribing and posting to mailinglists. Then ingnore anything that struggles into this mail account, if it wasn't sent by a specific mail host / has not the correct list-id; list-post; whatever-header in it. Sascha
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