On 3/17/06, J. Buck Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 3/16/06, J. Buck Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You know, I tried printing it out, but I still can't see the naked lady... > >> > > > > :-) > > > > Beware, by answering spam messages like > > that you get your address into spam filters all > > over the world. Change the subject line next > > time. > > > > > You might notice my email address - it's only used on this listserv, and > is a disposable alias. I start getting too much spam on it, I > unsubscribe, resubscribe with a variant (say, freebsd1), and kill the > old alias. I can't recommend this enough to anyone running their own MX > server - I never give out the same email address to two different > organizations. That way I know who's violating their own privacy > policies when I start getting spam. > > To give you a for-instance - at work, where I have only one address, and > it's given out to all of our vendors, I get about 300 spam per day > (that's AFTER the RBLs). At home, on my own domain, I have about 130 > different aliases pointing to one account, and get about 3 spam mails a > day, but to only two aliases - the one in my domain registration (which > is whois accessible), and this one (because it's web-archive > spiderable).Any other spam I get (which is rare), I check the privacy > policies of the sender (usually legitimate bulk-mail services) and their > client (Target being the biggest offender) and rat the former out to the > latter as violating published terms of service, and cc: it to the FTC. > > Oh - wait - sorry, I misread. You meant that people might not get > messages FROM that address anymore. Meh. I don't consider myself that > important; if people don't get my random musings, they won't miss them. > > Happy Thursday! > -- > I never could get the hang of Thursdays. > >
Gmail seems to have solved the spam problem for me for good. Now it's just a folder next to trash. Seriously. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
