You are absolutely wrong, I'm subscribed to a couple of the mandrake mailinglists as well, never got any spam through that list. The mailinglist should prevent adress collection, of course if the mailinglist and webfrontends show the plain emailadress spiders easily pick them up.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Helgi Örn Helgason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo Maillinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user > On 2003-12-01, Redeeman wrote: > > i thought about make an account for mailinglists too, but i didnt do it, > > sadly :( > > > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:27, SN wrote: > > > Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but > > > this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I setup a mail > > > adress only for the gentoo mailinglist, so I don't depend on this adress. > > > I almost don't see any spam in those other accounts although I've been using > > > them for years.I also think, that the freemail provider "lycos" sucks > > > because he lets all thos spam viri to me. > > > > Perhaps some of you should RTFM before starting to use an email list. > > Fact is: as soon as you expose your email address on a public email list it > WILL be used by spammers, the Gentoo list is no exception. > > Some clear signs of a mailinglist newbie: > * Top mailing. > * Never tidying up a RE: message. > * Lot of OT stuff. > > Cheers, > /HÖ > > > -- > /// Helgi Örn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ > \\\ ~~~~~~~ Gentoo 1.4 * Kernel 2.4.20 * KDE 3.1.4 ~~~~~~~ /// > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
