From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 15:42:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BAE16A400 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740CD43D45 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:42:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so612991nzo for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:42:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bPPwVOAN6/L3B4vl9jybV694XxVH7Q+S2XyMu5MY9eKuB0ptKWQvjFJoZbDDFe8H/+rhOwtcsq3L/jwNsJIIQdbDH3Uu1iBIjKPYmm++i2UdnakKM3MvGqTInypCjm2iwTRBUP1Z/p2lmksnTOQuFx2Q0RCK1tHa1tYTakFz59s= Received: by 10.37.14.63 with SMTP id r63mr3937429nzi; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:42:35 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "J. Buck Caldwell" In-Reply-To: <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org> Cc: stable Subject: Re: too much spam (Was: no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:42:37 -0000 On 3/17/06, J. Buck Caldwell wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 3/16/06, J. Buck Caldwell wrote: > > > >> You know, I tried printing it out, but I still can't see the naked lad= y... > >> > > > > :-) > > > > Beware, by answering spam messages like > > that you get your address into spam filters all > > over the world. Change the subject line next > > time. > > > > > You might notice my email address - it's only used on this listserv, and > is a disposable alias. I start getting too much spam on it, I > unsubscribe, resubscribe with a variant (say, freebsd1), and kill the > old alias. I can't recommend this enough to anyone running their own MX > server - I never give out the same email address to two different > organizations. That way I know who's violating their own privacy > policies when I start getting spam. > > To give you a for-instance - at work, where I have only one address, and > it's given out to all of our vendors, I get about 300 spam per day > (that's AFTER the RBLs). At home, on my own domain, I have about 130 > different aliases pointing to one account, and get about 3 spam mails a > day, but to only two aliases - the one in my domain registration (which > is whois accessible), and this one (because it's web-archive > spiderable).Any other spam I get (which is rare), I check the privacy > policies of the sender (usually legitimate bulk-mail services) and their > client (Target being the biggest offender) and rat the former out to the > latter as violating published terms of service, and cc: it to the FTC. > > Oh - wait - sorry, I misread. You meant that people might not get > messages FROM that address anymore. Meh. I don't consider myself that > important; if people don't get my random musings, they won't miss them. > > Happy Thursday! > -- > I never could get the hang of Thursdays. > > Gmail seems to have solved the spam problem for me for good. Now it's just a folder next to trash. Seriously.