On Wednesday 24 September 2003 3:39 pm, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > hallo to everyone, > > one and a have week ago i noticed that someone wants to bomb me with spam > (about 100 mails a day). because i can not stand this i changed two days > ago all my e-mail adresses and yesterday i corrected them in the > debian-kde, the debian-announce and the debian-news-german list. > This evening i have received spam. i can not imagin why but the adress it > was send to is [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is a adress i created 2 days > ago an i only have told to the mailinglist html interface from this three > debian lists above. in the last case, bevore i have changed all my adresses > spam came as well in over the same adress which was in debian-kde etc. > is it possible that the spam and this list have anything in common in my > case or does anyone else have simmilar problems? > i would be very pleased to have a solution for this because i want to read > this lists but i do not want to changen my complete email setup 3 times a > week. > thank you in advance > wolfgang
The solution is better list management. A responsible list manager munges the sender's addresses in the Web archives. Many lists that I subscribe to do a simple 'user at domain.com' sort of munge. Even better is munging all addresses in Web archives to the list address, see http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2003-September/022007.html for an example. Note how the sender's address is munged to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address-harvesting bots are rampant, the fastest I ever saw spammed me the same day my address appeared on a Web page. Some spammers subscribe to lists just to collect more addresses, but I think that is not that common, it's too much work. I think it is not good list management to leave subscriber's addresses wide-open to spammers. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~