On Saturday 11 May 2002 00:04, Alex Wulms wrote:
> I hope that the amount of daily spam that I receive does not increase due
> to me posting again in a (public) mailinglist, which might very well be
> being monitored by spam email address collectors :-(
Note that there are no anti-spam measures on the MSX mailinglist. If you want
to be safe, use a dedicated address. Some providers allow constructs like
[EMAIL PROTECTED], so you can create as many e-mail addresses as
you like for easy filtering, but also for tracking the origin of spam.
In my opinion, spam should be fought at the source, namely the people sending
it. Anti-spam measures like putting e-mail addresses in images instead of
text may work against address collectors, but also make it harder for
legitimate users to contact you (no more mailto: links). Client-side
filtering may reduce the amount of spam in your inbox, but the bandwith used
transmitting the spam is still wasted.
What is really depressing is that apparently it pays to send spam. If no-one
would ever buy something from a spammer, there wouldn't be so much spam being
sent, often the same messages repeated many times.
Bye,
Maarten
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