On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:54:15PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from michael: > > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: > > > > > > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract > > > > all of the email addresses from the web archive. > > > > > > It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that. > > > > but isn't much of the spam going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as opposed to you > > directly)? that's what bothers me a bit... > > It's going to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and once any subscriber > to that list who reports spam sees it, Spammy's account(s)[*] are in > mail-abuse heaven. It's a feature. > > Running away from spammers (munging your email address, & etc.) > doesn't stop them. The only thing that might is making it all as > inconvenient as possible to stay in the racket. Force them to run > around recreating infrastructure every time they use it, and maybe > they'll get a clue. > > Get an account at Spamcop.net and LART some yourself. > > > [*] Excepting APNIC IP's, of course. Those you can safely /dev/null > at the earliest opportunity. If I saw any evidence of APNIC ISPs > killing abusers' accounts, I'd care about them too. I haven't, so > I don't. >
What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just recently I've had a few messages to the address I'm using now from what seemed to be genuine addresses (universities, often) listing a dozen or two unknown users they couldn't deliver to. The undeliverable message was some piece of German pollitical spam (pretty nasty from the titles although I haven't actually read any). Am I going to get blacklisted when people report this to Spamcop or take other anti-spam measures? Can I do anything about it? Cheers, David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
