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Max Laier wrote:
> Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 1:29:21 PM, you wrote:
> AC> Due to increased activity of SPAM harvesters what are our plans to hide
> AC> our addresses from public WWW? I mean all browseable mailing lists,
> AC> FreeBSD site, CVS via WWW, PRs, ports and docs.
> 
> OT: mail/procmail mail/relaydb mail/spamd mail/bmf ... etc. pp.
> http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html
> 
> So would you please stop whining and configure your procmail okay.
> What you suggest is "Security Through Obscurity", which does not work!

Cluebat:

Neither does your solution, without having a static IP address
and your own SMTP server with a full time broadband connection.

-- Terry