From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 21:07:37 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 33E3B16A401 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:07:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@bitparts.org) Received: from mail.bitparts.org (63-253-101-190.ip.mcleodusa.net [63.253.101.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDA743D46 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:07:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@bitparts.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (71-11-157-24.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com [71.11.157.24]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.bitparts.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2GL7S4U088304; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:07:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@bitparts.org) Message-ID: <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:07:29 -0600 From: "J. Buck Caldwell" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pantyukhin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: pass (mail.bitparts.org: authenticated connection) receiver=mail.bitparts.org; client-ip=71.11.157.24; helo=[127.0.0.1]; envelope-from=freebsd@bitparts.org; x-software=spfmilter 0.93 http://www.acme.com/software/spfmilter/; 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: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:07:37 -0000 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 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.