On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Aaron Goldblatt wrote: > an fyi so yall know it's happening, my email address used exclusively > for mutt-users and mutt-dev has been harvested for spam. i believe i > posted to mutt-users exactly once, and never to mutt-dev. > Hi Aaron, Sorry you got spammed.
Unfortunately even if this list weren't archived with our email-addresses intact the list could still be mined for addresses by someone who just signed up to the list and listened. Unless the spammer was a total idiot there would be no way to tell them apart anybody else on the list who is just a listener. Since there is now way to tell the innocent from the guilty there would is no way to stop it. I use procmail and it stops most of the spam using RBLS lists. There are some "relatively" new schemes out there which, if widely adopted will actually put a virtual stop to spam. My favorite for "best technical solution" is called "Camram". http://www.camram.org My favorite for "Most gratifying solution" is to find the SOB's and <description of various extreme acts deleted> 'em. Unfortunately that's probably illegal. Too bad. -- Jeff Kinz, Director, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 1995-2002. Use restricted to non-UCE uses. Any other use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.ultranet.com/~jkinz/policy.html. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2002. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. (¬_ -o) //\ eLviintuaxbilse /\\ V_/_ _\_V
