Mike Klinke wrote:
> If [...] you get "spammed" each
> time you post a message as a response to that message, no amount of
> authentication to the list will help you since it's not coming to
> the list but, rather, directly to you.
This is, of course, true in general.
I don't think I've ever seen any spam actually on the Fedora list: it's
too much effort for the spammers to subscribe to individual mailing
lists, and I know Red Hat has a few anti-spam measures guarding the list
[1].
But Fedora list e-mail is available on the Internet in quite a few
places. A moderately good way to see this is to google on "more holes in
Internet Explorer than", with the quotation marks. (The quote is from my
signature, below.[2]) At the moment, it looks as though all these sites
are disguising e-mail addresses, but last I checked, not all of them
were.
(One of the ways that spammers get e-mail addresses is by looking for
them on web pages.)
It certainly looks like some spammers have been harvesting list
addresses. I've never used the fedora@westexe address for anything
other than posting to the list, expecting it to be harvested. And, in
fact, I did get some spam to it a while back.
Demon (my ISP) have some pretty good anti-spam software of their own
protecting this domain, so I can't tell if the spammers have stopped
sending e-mail to that address, or Demon's software has caught up with
the list.[3]
And as Mike said: none of this spam goes anywhere near Red Hat. There's
nothing they can do about it.
James.
[1] Red Hat won't even accept mail with an invalid domain in the
envelope sender (that's not the From: at the top of an e-mail, it's the
MAIL FROM:<> in the SMTP transaction).
So if you accidentally configure your MTA so its idea of its hostname
doesn't appear in public DNS, and you send an email through something
that uses the sendmail interface, you can e-mail most places, but your
e-mails won't show up here so you can ask for help...
[2] The official Red Hat archives, with my sig, show up in Google ahead
of the original quotation.
[3] I actually *receive* Fedora e-mail through gmail, so I can check
if there's any spam on the list.
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