spam
Steve Searle
steve at stevesearle.com
Thu Jun 21 17:31:24 UTC 2007
Around 06:07pm on Thursday, June 21, 2007 (UK time), maillist at sios.ca scrawled:
> I did not realise until I checked one of my spam filters today how much
> spam I was receiving because I have posted on this list. Someone on the
> list seems to feel it is a demonstration of their IT skill to be able to
> harvest email addresses on a mail list.
If you can only see the problem by checking your "spam filters", why is
this a problem.
> Un-subscribing from this may not be much of a loss to to the list but,
> when some person decides to use the list to troll for email addresses to
> spam the simplest thing to do is just stop using the email address I use
> for the list.
> Spammers misuse of internet features such as mail lists are effectively
> killing other users enjoyment and use of the net.
No its the idiots that respond to spam that are to blame.
I had an ever worsening problem with spam up to a couple of months ago,
even with spamassassin running on my mail server. I then implemented
greylisting (milter-greylist) and have been stunned at how effective it
is. I recommend it to anyone who has a problem with spam.
Sometimes I just sit and watch my /var/log/maillog for hours - seeing
greylisting rejecting 95% of the spam, and spammassassin dealing with
the remaining 5% :-)
Steve
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
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