Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:42:35 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "J. Buck Caldwell" <freebsd@bitparts.org> Cc: stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: too much spam (Was: no subject) Message-ID: <cb5206420603170742m333a84d3q5308ab7aa6d728c7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org> References: <cb5206420603152134p3676b77ei717e35dcf635b1b@mail.gmail.com> <4419D391.1010908@bitparts.org>
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On 3/17/06, J. Buck Caldwell <freebsd@bitparts.org> wrote: > 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 lad= y... > >> > > > > :-) > > > > 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. > > Gmail seems to have solved the spam problem for me for good. Now it's just a folder next to trash. Seriously.
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