Re: (ET) spam

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Helps - as at least now I know how and why.  The cure you are using isn't
available to me but can usually tell what is spam and what ain't by the
subject heading, which is non compos to anything I've  been doing by
email,  and don't open it, just delete it.  But this one was a familiar
addy. 
      There was just a thing on public radio about 'stock market tip'
spam - the people who fall for it never make anything on any of it, it is
among other things a device to unload a failing stock.  It should be made
a Federal criminal offense rather than just bad business practice but
likely won't, as the perps are close to impossible to catch. 

Dave
Weymouth MA


On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:01:22 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
writes:
> 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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