"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dilettantes remain rude.Where we can almost borrow money from our > earring.Hugo, the friend of Hugo and earns frequent flier miles > with power drill near.
In order to be able to send messages to this mailing list, the spammer above had to subscribe. To subscribe means that he had to respond to an email that was sent to the subscription address. Since his email address does not exist, I'm wondering how he managed to pull this off. Any ideas? I have unsubscribed every account from "paypal.com" and "ebay.com". All such accounts were of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", etc. There were 7 such accounts. After purging the accounts above, we are still left with 1217 active subscribers. This seems like a lot to me. I'm wondering if some fraction of these might be inactive accounts, or accounts belonging to people who have spam filters turned on to delete incoming email from sqlite.org. Does anybody have any ideas on how we might remove people from the mailing list that do not actually read messages from the mailing list? When email bounces, the user is removed automatically. But email addresses that silently absorb messages and never deliver them to a real human can linger on the mailing list indefinitely. I wonder if I need to implement some kind of mechanism that requires you to either send a message to the mailing list or else renew your subscription every 3 months. Does anybody have any experience with other mailing lists that require such measures? -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
