Well the best thing to do, would be setup an email address such as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then setup a filter rule, checking that only emails
where the TO address contains [email protected] are
accepted. Outlook 2003 does quite a good job filtering out rubbish.

Tristan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stan Bubrouski
Sent: Monday, 21 November 2005 2:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Spammers harvesting from this list?

Spammers pretty much harvest from every single mail list with public
archives.  Its the very known you risk you take posting to public
mailing lists, but you know this *poke poke* ;-)

-sb

On 11/20/05, Ook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ScratchMonkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Spammers harvesting from this list?
>
>
> > --On Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:49 PM -0800 Ook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm wondering if some spammer has come here
> >> to harvest email address. Has anyone else had problems with extra spam
to
> >> the address you use here?
> >
> > I wouldn't notice. My servers are protected with SpamAssassin. The only
> > spam that's getting through is that table-based one selling the drugs
> > listed spelled in columns, to evade checking for the regular name. I
need
> > to download a ruleset to match that class. If only people didn't post
> > ordinary mail in HTML, it would be trivial to spot spam.
> >
> >
>
> I have SpamAssassin also, but it's not reliable enough - it misses a lot
of
> spam, and every now and then tags a legit email. Because of that I have to
> review all the spam tags to make sure it didn't miss anything.
>
>
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