On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:37:25 +1030 Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I did that because I want to avoid receiving spam and private messages from strangers on the list. Twenty-plus years of being on mailing lists has taught me that they're full of nutters, and a prime cause of masses of spam. And that automatic anti-spam systems always screw up.
I should of done that... I am on a mailing list that for some reason I wasn't getting that person's messages and could only see what they said when someone replied to them.. That would of worked perfectly in that situation.
I changed hosting providers.. I think that fixed it.....
I'd do it all (send and receive) through an external service, but they tend to erroneously reject list mail as spam, so I receive the messages on a service that doesn't do that, it only accepts mail from the list, and does no other filtering. Since I don't want that service to get spammed (not having to manage that traffic in any way), I avoid exposing its address by posting to the list from another address that rejects all mail.
I dont mind people coming to me OL... Until they say mean and hateful things in their email. And then, you get a special filter set up in your honor that has Claws silently delete your emails and not let me know that you sent me something :)
If you use the usual public services, gmail, yahoo, etc., they all have uncontrollable and fallible anti-spam systems. It means you have to continually check your junk mail folder for false positives (so what's the damn point in doing any filtering?). Or, you don't bother checking, and you seriously piss someone off who's been trying to contact you, or simply miss out on solutions to problems and work, completely unaware that you're missing some mail.
You can turn off Gmail's spam filtering:
*Create Filter*
in:spam ( never send to spam)
label:spam ( never send to spam)
is:spam ( never send to spam)
And for an extra bonus:
TO = myaddress@gmail.com ( never send to spam)
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