Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:10:57 +0100 From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <20150410231057.GB765@milliways> In-Reply-To: <552834F4.6030409@bluerosetech.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <552834F4.6030409@bluerosetech.com>
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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 -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
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