Re: [PLUG] OT: Spam

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

This doesn't seem like the gr responses that I'm used to.  My screen 
almost caught on fire.  Well...to some degree maybe it does resemble a 
usual gr response.  ;-)

Mailman is capable of protecting its subscribers to a greater degree. 
Security is always a trade-off.  Maybe we could trade some 
archivability for spam resistance.  I changed my address and created a 
second address to get away from spam.  I know I will always have to take 
measures to avoid spam, but lists like this should also consider taking 
anti-spam measures.


gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> [Jeffrey, please wrap your lines somewhere under 80 columns, in
> respect of those of us using a standard 80 column terminal to read
> and reply to email. Thanks.]
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:48:09PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote:
>  
>
> > I don't know if my address was reaped from this list's archives,
> > but if not, it's only a matter of time. Is there any way you can
> > set the archives to save email addresses obscured in some way? I
> > can easily morph to a new address, but if it's just going to get
> > me spam to the new address, I can't see why it would be worth the
> > effort.
> >    
>
> This is invariably an ineffective approach, and is always rather
> poorly received by technical people (myself included). It's
> rendering a historical record less useful (if not totally useless)
> in a vain attempt to hide from people abusing the Internet. Please,
> don't break the usefulness of our archives in the hopes that doing
> so will keep you from getting spam (it won't, anyway).
>
>  
>
> > Address mangling works fine for newsgroups, but the list manager
> > won't let me post unless it's from the address that signed up for
> > the list.
> >    
>
> Sure it will. Subscribe from the mangled address, turn delivery off
> for that address in the Mailman interface, and dump all email to
> that address into /dev/null.
>
>  
>
> > So I'm afraid this has to be tackled at the list software end.
> >    
>
> No, it doesn't. And YOUR spam problem is very much not the list
> software's responsibility. Filter your own spam out, please.
>
>  


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