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

[Viper007Bond]

Er, yeah, I meant IMAP. Thanks.

BTW -- here's a solution to the spam problem: any e-mail that is sent to
your list exclusive e-mail address that doesn't have "[wp-hackers]" as the
beginning of the subject, have it be filtered directly into the trash.
Problem solved. :)

On 12/4/07, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>
> But there are other archives that, quite unfortunately, don't.
>
> And all an email harvester has to do is subscribe to a list his or
> herself,
> and everyone's email is compromised - nothing anyone can do about that.
>
> On a sidenote - Viper, you mean IMAP, right? SMTP has been there from the
> very beginning.....
>
> -CG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Viper007Bond
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:02 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Re: Spam to addresses on the list
>
> I too have Google host my @viper007bond.com e-mail. It's especially useful
> since they support catchalls and now SMTP (I use their HTTP interface
> though). Plus, the 14000 spam e-mails it's caught in the past 30 days and
> receiving new mail notices via GTalk is nice (login with your full e-mail
> address).
>
> Anyway, as for getting spam at your address, nothing anyone can do about
> it.
> Mailman isn't handing it out last I looked and spammers already have your
> e-mail address via an archive, official or not.
>
> Google's at least makes you fill out a CAPCHA before you can see the full
> addresses:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/browse_thread/thread/e1a41cebba9f2
> 7fe
>
> On 12/4/07, Chris Poteet <cpoteet at siolon.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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