Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 20:56:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com> To: john hood <cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A quick note to those without DNS resolvable mail hosts. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905205152.8748B-100000@roguetrader.com> In-Reply-To: <199709060225.WAA03036@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, john hood wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > In order to combat the absolute flood of spam which has been coming
> > into my mailbox lately, I've gone to more aggressive sendmail filtering
> > which:
>
> I'll note that at least one reason for the absolute flood is all the
> mail->news gateways that the lists get piped into. My ISP is getting
> FreeBSD list messages in at least five separate "local" hierarchies,
> and I'm sure they're missing some.
>
> That's a lot of @ signs for the spammers to latch onto.
what do people feel about using the common 'masking' of email addresses,
on this list? I know its generally 'uncool' to do such on mailing lists
(where its almost a given for news now). What I've considered doing for a
while (since I heard the lists were being pointed to news) was have my
email addr be:
brandon@roguetrader-NIXTHIS.com
This, and variations on this theme, are what I use when posting to news
(thus all any email-searching-engines get is a bogus hostname).
So I guess the question would be, do people find this rude, if done in
these forums? Keeping in mind that these forums are being routed to news?
-Brandon Gillespie
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