>This probably isn't news to most people, but I though I'd go on the >record here with a warning: > > If you subscribe to and use Debian mailing lists, you WILL get > spam.
This is not new I'm afraid. And warning people _on_ the list is not well thought through. I imagine the minority of the list readers are _not_ subscribed. If you feel this issue should be clarified to people _before_ they subscribe, you should take it up with whomever keeps an eye on the list, and have a note added to the subscription page. Such a missing note seems to be what was your problem in the first place. >I know this after getting hit over the last few weeks to an e-mail >account that I *only* use for personal correspondance. I also foolishly >subscribed to this list a while ago (different e-mail account), >and now I get around 10 spams a day straight into my primary mailbox. > Well, I'm afraid you didn't think properly. Anyone subscribing to any public mailing list is capable of extracting the other subscribers' email addresses from the list. >While there is nothing stopping a spammer manually subscribing to >the list to harvest addresses, [snip] See above. >...the list archives show addresses in the >clear... I don't know many lists that _don't_. > Use only a secondary, 'disposable' account for Debian lists. Unfair. The proper advice is: Use only a secondary, 'disposable' account for mailing lists, if you want to be sure to be able to control spam. >I managed to stay 'clean' for nearly 9 months to my primary account, now >I'm spitting chips at the vision of my e-mail address brunt onto some >get-rich-quick-marketting-tool CD-R. Look at the bright side: you just grew a little wiser. Cheers Johnny :o)
