On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:11, Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam does not justify spam. I have come to this realization myself only > recently (I am, unfortunately still, a TMDA user). I can understand that
You should cease using TMDA. For reference I never respond to TMDA type messages in response to messages I wrote, only if they are in response to spams. > many people see autoresponders as essential but due care should be taken to > not respond to innocent third parties and mailing lists especially. Auto-responders always respond to innocent people. The only excuse for an auto-responder is for a mailing list system (for subscription requests and for notification that only subscribers may post to the list). Generating an automatic message in response to an attempted list posting is acceptable because in the common case one person (the person who's email address was forged) is inconvenienced instead of many people (the list subscribers). > The fact that you sent your new email in the body as "johnc at planetz.com" > instead of as a real email address is, I suspect, immaterial. Spammers > send to millions of invalid email addresses, they scan all webpages, list > archives, etc. and look for anything that looks like a valid email address > ... IMO x at y is just as easy to find and parse as [EMAIL PROTECTED] They will be > finding you anyway. Paste it into the To: field in a modern email program such as kmail and the "at" will automatically be converted to "@" etc. > > Coker, consider a private email, before publically hanging someone. > > When someone does something stupid there is value in making sure that > everyone knows that it is stupid. Knowledge is only advanced when it is > shared. Also see the several incidents in the past where I have communicated privately with such idiots, been flamed by the idiot, then taken the discussion back to the Debian list where it started. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
