From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 23:28:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE8536B4; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ma.sdf.org", Issuer "ma.sdf.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F3C17F5; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ma.sdf.org (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX19AgRWSVxkMJmVBC+X+Nc8MaEWtwbekzPg@ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) by sdf.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t3ANSXRY032565; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:28:33 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:28:33 -0500 From: cpet To: Ken Moffat Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website In-Reply-To: <20150410231057.GB765@milliways> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <552834F4.6030409@bluerosetech.com> <20150410231057.GB765@milliways> Message-ID: <968338db58190efa9072a933497dff20@sdf.org> X-Sender: cpet@sdf.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:28:37 -0000 On 2015-04-10 18:10, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 01:39:16PM -0700, Mel Pilgrim wrote: >> >> If you want to curtail spam to your maintainer address, use a gmail >> account. >> Google's spam filters are very good at filtering out the black- and >> grey-hat >> spam that gets sent to maintainer addresses. >> > LOL -> 110% effective in my opinion, with very little opportunity to > send false positives back to them (about 1 time in 10). So if you > use gmail, check your spam "folder" frequently. So far, the most > egregious example I've seen was a -rc release announcement from a > certain Mr Torvalds : on this list that would certainly be regarded > as O/T, but google made that identification on the linux kernel list > ;-) > > Unfortunately, the address I'm using here comes via virginmedia who > outsourced email to google - lots of supposedly adult messages get > trapped there, but regrettably not the spam from this list. Oh well, > at least there are usually only a few spams per day at the moment. > > ĸen Stop using google, and use something that's not free, ISP email counts as "free" email. Then your email works. you have services such as hushmail, it just takes one user to flag a email as spam from a ML to make it a pain for the rest.