[wp-hackers] Re: Spam to addresses on the list

[Chris Poteet]

I do hosted Gmail as well, and it is amazing.  www.google.com/a/

On Dec 4, 11:43 pm, Computer Guru <computerg... at neosmart.net> wrote:
> I gave up on obfuscation and security via obscurity -- I receive around 1600
> spam *daily* to this address which post literally everywhere.
>
> Solution: hosted gmail which filters out all but one or two spam per day.
> Quite impressive.
>
> (though Gmail _does_ have false positives, I wouldn't know since I never go
> into the spam folder to check)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com
>
> [mailto:wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum
> Macdonald
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:03 AM
> To: wp-hack... at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Spam to addresses on the list
>
> G'day,
>
> I use individual email addresses for each mailing list I'm on. I'm
> starting to get a fair bit of spam (700 in a week) to the address for
> this list. Is there anything the list admins can do to improve the
> situation?
>
> I'm guessing the standard obfuscation on list archive is probably not
> sufficient to keep a smart harvester at bay. Stripping characters from
> emails would probably work better, or something like that.
>
> I don't have a lot of time now, just wanted to float the idea.
>
> Cheers - Callum.
>
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