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

[Callum Macdonald]

I just couldn't let these gmail plugs go unrebutted!

Google is not good. With gmail's hosted mail service comes all of the 
Google privacy and other issues. I only recently realised WordPress uses 
google's related search by default, oh it saddened me so.

I don't want to start a Google debate, so please don't feel the need to 
reply to this thread. I feel two positive notes for Google and one 
negative makes a reasonable balance.

Cheers - Callum.

Chris Poteet 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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