Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:07:29 -0600 From: "J. Buck Caldwell" <freebsd@bitparts.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: too much spam (Was: no subject) Message-ID: <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420603152134p3676b77ei717e35dcf635b1b@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420603152134p3676b77ei717e35dcf635b1b@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 3/16/06, J. Buck Caldwell <freebsd@bitparts.org> wrote: > >> You know, I tried printing it out, but I still can't see the naked lady... >> > > :-) > > 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.
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