Donatella, It is likely that your spam experience was more coincidence than lute list. Perhaps at the same time you wrote to the list you also made an order on the Web, or answered a Web site, or did something else that brought you to the spammer's attention. One simple way for the list participants to see if the list is compromised is to compare spam messages (and I won't get involved in this, I kill at least twenty a night that my filters have missed, and have no idea where they come from).
A point on spam, my lady has her own email account on my domain. Anything sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes into her "login" and separate email account. To the best of my knowledge she has received no spam in the four years she has had that account. But if she wants to go on the web I do it in my account, so her's is kept pristine. Whereas anything not sent specifically to "monique", but to any name at "murphsays.com" comes to me. My point being that if you want to avoid spam in your lute list messages you might consider a separate account - or a filter. On my machine, as I have some responsibilities to other listings, I have to receive the spam on my main "in box", but everything sent from the lute list is redirected to a special "folder", as are those from the "harplist". Should anyone want to know how to make those filters with standard Windows software please let me know. It ain't perfect, but it do help. Best, Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:06 PM Subject: spammers on the lute list > Dear All, > > I noticed that after some months I did not write to the list, the spam I > received was not more than one mail a day, and after each of my messages I > received at least ten messages within 12 hours, so I think someone on the > list ( hopefully not a lutenist, but it does not change much) gets hold of > addresses for spamming purposes. I wish this person found a better and more > honest way to make money. > > Donatella > > > http://web.tiscali.it/awebd > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
