Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread jam
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send slug mailing list submissions to slug@slug.org.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Martin Visser wrote: I still do obfuscate my email address in my .signature when I use my work account, but I have to admit it probably doesn't make a heck of difference now. Basically if you are seeing 30 spams or say a day (which is what I max out on) your address

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Terry Collins
Mary Gardiner wrote: Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading. Just what I really want. Another source of email addresses for spammers to pillage. Who was responsible for this bright idea? If you are goingto start passing

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
I am strongly in favour of all mailing lists such as SLUG being subscriber only, and definitely not being made available to (wo)man+dog. Terry Collins wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading.

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Martin Visser
I am not an expert on statistics, but my feeling is that once your email has already made it to one one of the spammers specials - DVD containing one billon emails for $100 - then having your email (even if it is obfuscated) on more public mail/nntp/whatever archives isn't really going to make a

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Martin Visser wrote: (Anybody get more than 50 spams to a single email address on average?) I hve one address [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I have had for about 8 years and used to post to mailing lists, usenet and register a domain name gets about 20 spams an hour 24/7. I use it as a spam trap. Erik

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Howard Lowndes wrote: I am strongly in favour of all mailing lists such as SLUG being subscriber only, and definitely not being made available to (wo)man+dog. Yep, after this, I've changed my belief. The SYDNEY in SLUG is what matters to me. If I want to support the rest of the world, there

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:02:51AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading. Just what I really want. Another source of email addresses for spammers to pillage.

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Andrew Bennetts wrote: As http://gmane.org/expiry.php points out, you can set headers if you wish to declare that your messages should not be archived. The issue is not whether to archive or not archive. I agree that we want to retain the collective wisdom/brain-farts that these posts

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: The issue is the spreading around of valid email addresses, particularly when this has been done so surreptitiously[1]. You are assuming that this was an active decision to not tell people. I think you are wrong. It may have happened without the knowledge

[SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading. This doesn't require registering for any accounts, but you will need to do a confirmation on the very first message you send. The NNTP server is news.gmane.org and here are the