I would imagine that if your AMSAT.org email address is public and posted online then spammers could email it which then gets forwarded and might look like a trusted email to your email provider and not flagged as spam.Just a thought.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Phil Karn wrote: > A significant fraction of the spam I get on my primary email account > comes by way of the amsat.org email reflector; by my count, 18 of the 76 > spam emails I've received in the last day. > > But I don't want to just shut it off; sometimes people I do want to hear > from make contact that way. And I've used it to contact others whose > email addresses I don't know, but who I know to be AMSAT members. > > I wonder if it would be possible to set up some sort of auto-responder > on amsat.org so that instead of just forwarding email, returns a message > to the sender with a non-machine-readable image of the user's actual > email address, possibly accompanied with a sound file with the same > information for anyone with impaired vision. Spammers couldn't handle > it, especially since most don't even use valid return addresses. But any > real human could resend his email directly to its destination. > > What do people think of this idea? How much of a problem is spam for > everyone else here? > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org <javascript:;>. Opinions expressed are those > of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
