[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Bryce Salmi
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

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Phil Karn
On 10/31/2013 01:44 AM, Bryce Salmi wrote: 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. My amsat.org

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 01:22 AM 10/31/2013 -0700, Phil Karn k...@ka9q.net 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

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce
i have had my amsat.org redirected email for some 15+ years. i now get 50-100 spam messages per day (as my callsign is pretty active on the web). since my main email account is with att, they use yahoo. all of the spam goes into through their spam filter and shows up in the spam folder. should

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 01:22 AM 10/31/2013 -0700, Phil Karn k...@ka9q.net 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

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Jim Walls
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. Same here. I stopped using my amsat.org address about a decade ago because it was so badly spammed. It is

[amsat-bb] Re: Spam through amsat.org

2013-10-31 Thread Greg D
Hi Phil, Interesting idea. I think what you are suggesting is to turn the Amsat email forwarding service into an email lookup / reply service, where the sender of the original message would receive a means for contacting you (your contact email address) in a non-machine readable form. The