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

[Otto]

Google's hosted mail service works particularly well and allows for
very easy to use and custom domain email management. It has a
particularly good spam filtering service and even provides a simple to
setup Jabber interoperable server if you can make a few simple DNS
entries.

So, it is in fact, quite good. As are most all of Google's *free*
services, IMO.

Also, I've never seen any Google related privacy issue that doesn't
reek of tinfoil-hatism, so if you'd care to point out real issues,
then your comment might hold more weight. But simply saying "it's bad
I don't like it" really doesn't get you anywhere.

In the meantime, I highly recommend Google's email hosting services.
It just works incredibly well. I understand that Microsoft also
provides a similar service through their "Live" system, if you care to
try a different direction.




On 12/10/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com> wrote:
> 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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