Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:36 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Walter Ian Kaye <freebsd-org@natural-innovations.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email addresses and spam Message-ID: <DE6621AA-867E-4B49-803C-0FD236065EDD@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <a05111b1fc27b90b44277@[192.168.10.103]> References: <a05111b1fc27b90b44277@[192.168.10.103]>
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On May 24, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > All right, who released my email address to spammers? Nobody. Spammers routinely search for email addresses by scraping Google, websites, mailing list archives, and even word-list dictionaries or random number generators. > I send mail to ports@freebsd.org, and 2 weeks later I get spam. > That is not cool, people. You MUST make sure that never happens. > Now I have to blacklist this address. Sheesh. Welcome to the Internet, as (presumably!) you are new here. The FreeBSD postmaster already spends a lot of resources to try to keep these mailing lists (mostly) spam-free, but there's nothing that we can do to prevent a spammer from sending email to you after you've chosen to make your email address available by sending mail to a public list, and this is going to be true of other mailing lists elsewhere, web forums, Usenet, and so forth. Most people deal with spam by setting up some combination of MTA checking, greylisting, and spam-filtering via Amavis/SpamAssassin/ dspam/ClamAV/etc rather than creating new email addresses, but you can do as you see fit. -- -Chuck
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