On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 05:34, David Forslund wrote: > I think the spam associated with yahoo is from people obtaining addresses > of subscribers, but I > actually think this is not a big problem. �I'm on a large number of yahoo > groups. �I do get spam > but I don't think it is from those groups. �It is from the fact that my > email address is generally fairly public.
I already sid I used honeypot addresses on yahoogroups after an unusual surge in spam. That is, ad-hoc generated email addresses never used for anything else but a single subscription to a yahoogroup. I generally use 10-20 honeypots when I probe for spamtraps. Result with *all* honeypot addresses used on 3 "trusted" yahoogroups (where I knew the list admins and knew they had no intention whatsoever to sell or forward addresses) was that within 2-3 days these addreses were flooded with spam. You can try the same with hotmail, same result. Tried it with several other free mailing services, and no spam with some (with arabia.com for example there was no spam). Once again: the server is not the problem. There are a number of us (including me) happy to host whatever for free. Including & exceeing the functionality of yahoogroups. Setting up a sourceforge clone maybe. The problem is getting somebody with enough time at his/her hands to provide reliable administration Horst -- It is difficult to soar with the eagles when you work with turkeys.
