On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > Just curious! Thanks! No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list archives and news groups for email addresses and now that you've posted to the list, your address is "out there".
The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it never reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal with spam: amavis-stats - Virus statistics RRDtool frontend for Amavis amavisd-new - Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters amavisd-new-milter - Interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new bld - Black List Daemon, automatically build blacklists bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter bsfilter - Bayesian spam filter crm114 - The Controllable Regex Mutilator and Spam Filter dcc-client - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - client programs dcc-common - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - common files dcc-milter - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - sendmail milter plugin dcc-server - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - server programs drac - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (pop-before-smtp) drac-dev - Dynamic Relay Authorization Control (development files) exim - An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) exim4-base - EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a Mail Transport Agent exim4-daemon-heavy - Exim (v4) with extended features, including exiscan-acl gnus-bonus-el - Miscellaneous add-ons for Gnus gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail or MSN account graphdefang - create graphs of your mimedefang spam and virus logs greylistd - Simple greylisting daemon for use with Exim & other MTAs hashcash - postage payment scheme for email based on hash calculations hinfo - Check address ownership and DNSBL listings for spam reporting ifile - a text/e-mail/spam filter capable of learning ifile-gnus-el - a news and mail classifier for the Gnus newsreader ilohamail - Light weight yet full featured multilingual web-based IMAP/POP3 client ircd-hybrid - High-performance secure IRC server lg-issue62 - Issue 62 of the Linux Gazette. lg-issue66 - Issue 66 of the Linux Gazette. lg-issue67 - Issue 67 of the Linux Gazette. lg-issue86 - Issue 86 of the Linux Gazette. libmail-bulkmail-perl - Platform independent mailing list module libnet-smtp-server-perl - A native Perl SMTP Server implementation libroxen-cloakingdevice - Mailto mutilation module for the Roxen Challenger web server libroxen-mailcloak - Mail cloak module for the Roxen Challenger web server libspf2-0 - Sender Policy Framework library, written in C libspf2-dev - Header and development libraries for libspf2 libsrs2-0 - SRS email address rewriting engine libsrs2-dev - Development tools for the libsrs2 licq-plugin-jonsgtk - graphical user interface plug-in for Licq using GTK+ listadmin - command line mailman moderator queue manipulation mailfilter - A program that filters your incoming e-mail to help remove spam mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger messagewall - An SMTP proxy daemon, designed to help keep out unwanted email mh-e - Emacs interface to the MH mail system opensp - OpenJade group's SGML parsing tools p3scan - transparent POP3-proxy with virus- and spam-scanning pimppa - powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly pop-before-smtp - watch log for POP/IMAP auth, notify MTA to allow relay pop3browser - Allows to check a pop3 mailbox before downloading any mail popfile - email classification tool postgrey - Greylisting implementation for Postfix proxycheck - checks existence of open proxy python2.3-spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical analysis (2.3.x) pyzor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network razor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network sa-exim - Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA sauce - SMTP defence software against spam sendmail - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent sendmail-bin - A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent sim - Simple Instant Messenger smtp-refuser - Simple spam-block with refusal message smtpd - Mail proxy for firewalls with anti-spam and anti-relay features sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools spamass-milter - sendmail milter for filtering mail through spamassassin spamassassin - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis spambayes - Python-based spam filter using statistical analysis spamc - Client for SpamAssassin spam filtering daemon spamoracle - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula spamoracle-byte - A statistical analysis spam filter based on Bayes' formula spampd - a spamassassin based SMTP/LMTP proxy daemon spamprobe - a C++ Bayesian spam filter sugarplum - an automated and intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner sylpheed-claws-spamassassin - SpamAssassin plugin for Sylpheed Claws tmda - Tagged Message Delivery Agent usermin-spamassassin - Spamassassin module for the usermin web-based administration tool webmin-spamassassin - spamassassin control module for webmin xmail - Advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server xmail-doc - Documentation for xmail ucspi-tcp-src - Source only package for building ucspi-tcp binary package Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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