: Around Sept. 20 I started getting Japanese spam to this account. This is : a special account I only use for the Solr and Lucene user mailing : lists. Did anybody else get these, starting around 9/20?
Note that many mailing list archives leave the sender emails in plain text (which results in easy harvesting by spam bots). even the archives that strip or obfuscate email addresses in headers frequently do nothing baout email addrs in the body of hte message. ie: when someone replies to a post and their mail client does something like... >> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Norskog, Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: or... >> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:50:34 -0400 >> From: "Norskog, Lance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> one solution is to configure your spam filter to automatically reject mail where you address is in a recepient header (as opposed to the list addresses) .... the trade off being you'll never see private replies replies, but hey: this is open source, everything should be discussed in the open :) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]