From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 19:20:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E752716A41F for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 19:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC0E13C457 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 19:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E7D2091D8; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 92B7629C003; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-a088ebb0000065b6-4d-4655e585462a Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 6A64A30400D; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:36 -0700 To: Walter Ian Kaye X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email addresses and spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:20:38 -0000 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