Re: (ET) spam

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

The list is archived with email addresses clear (not obfuscated or 
obscured).  The spambots harvest from the archive.  If you email this 
list, 
you WILL get spam (or more of it ;-).

The archives for other lists of which I'm a member are able to obscure or 
alter the addresses of the members, so the spambots can't get them.  I 
wrote 
to the ET list administrator once about that and I think I recall him 
saying 
that it couldn't be done with this archive for some reason.  

So, I've solved the problem by having two addresses subscribed to the 
list.  


The one on the head of this message is a send-only address.  I have it set 
so the server does not send me any mail, but I can still post from it.  
Any 
mail I do receive at this address is thus presumably spam, and it goes 
right 
to the bit bucket; it never gets to my mailbox.  So, as my signature says, 
you can't contact me at this address as the mail won't reach me.

I'm also subscribed at a read-only address.  That's the one I use to 
receive 
mail from the list.  Actually, I could send from it; I just don't.  I 
never 
send email to the ET list from that address, so the spammers can't harvest 
it from the archive.

This works for me because I lease server space for my domain, and that 
includes a mail server on which I can create as many email addresses as I 
want.  Others can do the same thing by creating multiple accounts at the 
ad-
supported webmail providers.  And of course if you aren't very careful to 
guard your reading address, you can still start getting spam on it again.

Hope this helps.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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