Hello,> ...
I singed up for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] using a one-time email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and now I get virus laden spam messages at that address about every ninety seconds -- thanks.
The most effective step to reduce this is to restrict posting to subscribed list members.
Some consider such restrictions to be a form of censorship. I cannot see the rationale for this. Subscribing is easy, fast and open. Anyone with something to say to the list can do so in a matter of minutes. Getting off the list is just as easy. Nobody is "censored" except the spam-fountains whose target lists happen to include the posting address of this list.
Of course, this does not prevent a determined spammer from a hit-and-run spam spew, joining, spamming and then leaving. But few are. There's little benefit to going through even these few steps to join the list to spam it when one can spam hundreds of thousands of addresses while sitting back and swilling beer while the computer does the work.
It also doesn't prevent a list subscriber's computer infected with a worm or virus from hitting the list with it. However, it again limits the harm and it also makes it easy to identify the source and inform the party of the infection. In such a case the owner is nearly always a victim of the infection and not an intentional propagator and will appreciate the tip.
Ray Simard
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