Dear Donatella: That's a legitimate point, however let me suggest that there are times when someone posts a URL to a particular web site offering something interesting to members of this list. It is not possible that accessing these URL's is a more likely invitation to SPAM than merely subscribing to this list? SPAM is annoying but it is deletable.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:35 AM Subject: Re: spammers on the lute list > An increase of 20 or more letters after every message of mine to the list, > for more than 3 times, is more than a coincidence... I did not send the > address around in other ways. > > Donatella > > http://web.tiscali.it/awebd > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:28 AM > Subject: Re: spammers on the lute list > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > >
